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Plural of incubator

regular plural

The plural of incubator is incubators.

Forms of incubator

Singularincubator /ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.tə(ɹ)/
Pluralincubators
Countablecountable

Incubators in a sentence

  • Incubators must be carefully monitored so that hatchers and nonhatchers may both be further handled promptly.From the entry hatcher
  • Others are concerned that “wantrepreneurs” are jumping on the bandwagon, putting early-stage business resources, like accelerators and incubators, under strain.2014 September 13, Cian Traynor, “Start-up Ireland”, in The Irish Times. From the entry wantrepreneur
  • In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires.1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus. From the entry gravid
  • The incubators are built in remote fastnesses, where there is little or no likelihood of their being discovered by other tribes.1912 February–July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Under the Moons of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC…. From the entry fastness
  • But they are also bound up in Black British youth culture: neighbourhood incubators for music, affordable places to hang, landmarks of “the ends”.2026 July 26, Coco Khan, “Am I a chicken-shop lefty? Here’s what a French fast food row taught me about politics”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry ends

Meaning of incubator

  1. noun Any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.
  2. noun An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby.
  3. noun An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs.

Full definition of incubator

Questions about the plural of incubator

What is the plural of incubator?
The plural of incubator is incubators.
Is incubator countable?
Incubator is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: incubator (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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