incubator
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.tə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): [ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.ɾɚ]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): [ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.ɾə(ɹ)]
Audio (Brisbane): (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]incubator (plural incubators)
- (chemistry) Any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.
- (medicine) An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby.
- Synonym: brooder
- An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs.
- Synonym: brooder
- A place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature.
- (business) A support programme for the development of entrepreneurial companies.
- 2006, Philip N. Cooke, Creative Industries in Wales: Potential and Pitfalls, page 34:
- 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.
- 2014 March 10, Cory Doctorow, “The slow death of Silicon Roundabout”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- 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.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]chemistry: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction
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apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby
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apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs
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place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature
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support program for entrepreneurial companies
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Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French incubateur. By surface analysis, incuba -tor.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]incubator n (plural incubatoare)
Declension
[edit]Declension of incubator
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) incubator | incubatorul | (niște) incubatoare | incubatoarele |
genitive/dative | (unui) incubator | incubatorului | (unor) incubatoare | incubatoarelor |
vocative | incubatorule | incubatoarelor |
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