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incubators

incubators is the plural of incubator.

Meaning of incubator

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

Questions about incubators

What is incubators the plural of?
Incubators is the plural of incubator.

Words near incubators in the dictionary

  1. incubative
  2. incubator
  3. incubatoria
  4. incubatories
  5. incubatorium
  6. incubators
  7. incubatory
  8. incube
  9. incubed
  10. incubee
  11. incubees

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