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incubator

UK/ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.tə(ɹ)/US[ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.ɾɚ]

incubator noun: any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.

Noun

incubator (plural incubators)

  1. Any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.
  2. An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby.
    Synonyms:
    brooder
  3. An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs.
    Synonyms:
    brooder
  4. A place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature.
  5. A support programme for the development of entrepreneurial companies.
    • So the question that is commonly asked is, why put a media incubator in a media desert and have it managed by a civil servant? This gets to the heart of the institutional support problem in Wales.2006, Philip N. Cooke, Creative Industries in Wales: Potential and Pitfalls, page 34
    • Tech City is very big on "incubators" – places where startups are supposed to grow out of a collection of adjacent desks in a huge barracks of other adjacent desks – and on luring big firms to the East End of London.2014 March 10, Cory Doctorow, “The slow death of Silicon Roundabout”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

incubator meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

incubator in Hindi

इन्क्यूबेटर, ऊष्मायक

incubator in Tamil

அடைகாப்புக்கருவி, அடைப்பெட்டி, குஞ்சு பொரிப்புக் கருவி

incubator in Marathi

इनक्युबेटर, इन्क्यूबेटर, इन्क्युबेटर

incubator in Urdu

انکیوبیٹر, انکوبیٹر
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incubator in Bengali
ইনকিউবেটর, ইনকিউবেটার
incubator in Telugu
ఇంక్యుబేటర్, ఇన్క్యుబేటర్, ఇన్క్యూబేటర్
incubator in Malayalam
ഇൻകുബേറ്റർ, ഇൻക്യുബേറ്റർ, ഇൻക്യൂബേറ്റർ
incubator in Kannada
ಕಾವು ಪೆಟ್ಟಿಗೆ, ಕಾವುಬುಟ್ಟಿ, ಕೃತಕ ಶಾಖೋಪಕರಣ, ಕಾವುಪೆಟ್ಟಿಗೆ
incubator in Punjabi
ਇਨਕਿਊਬੇਟਰ, ਇੰਕਿਊਬੇਟਰ, ਇਨਕਿਊਬੈਟਰ
incubator in Gujarati
ઉષ્માનિયંત્રક uṣmāniyantrak
incubator in Odia
ଇନକ୍ଯ଼ୁବେଟର, ଇନକ୍ଯ଼ୁବେଟର୍, ଇନକ୍ଯ଼ୁବେଟୋର
incubator in Sinhala
බිත්තර රකින උපකරණය
incubator in Nepali
इन्क्यूबेटर, इन्कुबेटर
incubator in Tagalog
limliman, pamisaan
incubator in Arabic
حَاضِنَة ḥāḍina

Examples of incubator in a sentence

  • Incubators must be carefully monitored so that hatchers and nonhatchers may both be further handled promptly.
  • An hour before, he had been in lab, removing from the incubator his boxes of agar plates.
  • Stein now was swiftly but surely removing the egg-trays from the incubator.

All 13 example sentences with incubator

Synonyms of incubator

Forms of incubator

pluralincubators

Plural of incubator: incubators

Origin of incubator

From incubate + -or.

Words formed from incubator

Words that rhyme with incubator

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Questions about incubator

What does incubator mean?
Incubator means any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.
What is incubator in Hindi?
Incubator in Hindi is इन्क्यूबेटर, ऊष्मायक. See Incubator meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is incubator?
Incubator is a noun.
How do you pronounce incubator?
Incubator is pronounced /ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.tə(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the plural of incubator?
The plural of incubator is incubators.

Words near incubator in the dictionary

  1. incubation time
  2. incubation times
  3. incubational
  4. incubations
  5. incubative
  6. incubator
  7. incubatoria
  8. incubatories
  9. incubatorium
  10. incubators
  11. incubatory

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: incubator (page history and authors); incubator (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); incubator (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incubator (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); incubator (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); incubator (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); incubator (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); incubator (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); incubator (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incubator (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ઉષ્માનિયંત્રક (Gujarati) (page history and authors); incubator (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); incubator (Sinhala Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incubator (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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