Incubation
[ɪŋkjʊ'beɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɪŋkju'beʃən]
Definition
(noun.) maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development.
(noun.) (pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear.
Typist: Rosa--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process.
(n.) The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
(n.) A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.
Typist: Rachel
Examples
- Aristotle traced with some care the embryological develo pment of the chick from the fourth day of incubation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Once each year my mother visited it for the five long years it lay there in the process of incubation. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Coming from eggs in which they have lain for five years, the period of incubation, they step forth into the world perfectly developed except in size. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
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