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reincubating

reincubating is the present participle and gerund of reincubate.

Meaning of reincubate

Verb

reincubate (third-person singular simple present reincubates, present participle reincubating, simple past and past participle reincubated)

  1. To incubate again.
    • Culture plates were reincubated for a further 24 h if there was no growth after overnight incubation or predominant morphotype seen in Gram smear had not yet been isolated.2015 August 1, “The Relationship between Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis and Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about reincubating

What is reincubating the present participle and gerund of?
Reincubating is the present participle and gerund of reincubate.

Words near reincubating in the dictionary

  1. reincreasing
  2. reincrudation
  3. reincubate
  4. reincubated
  5. reincubates
  6. reincubating
  7. reincubation
  8. reinculcate
  9. reinculcated
  10. reinculcates
  11. reinculcating

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