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Definition of 'incubation'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) incubation
the act or process of incubating.

2. incubation
the state of being incubated.

3. incubation
the period between the initial infection and the appearance of symptoms of a disease.

Etymology: (1605–15; < L)

Definition of 'incubation'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) incubation
maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development

2. (noun) incubation
(pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear

3. (noun) brooding, incubation
sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body

Definition of 'incubation'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) incubation
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

2. (noun) incubation
the development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)

3. (noun) incubation
a sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams

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