Incubator

Quick meaning: Incubator is a noun meaning (chemistry) Any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.

Meaning

(chemistry) Any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.

More Meanings

1. (medicine) An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby.
2. An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs.
3. A place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature.
4. (business) A support programme for the development of entrepreneurial companies.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• incubators

Synonyms for incubator

Depending on context, synonyms include brooder.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brooder, seedbed, hotbed, eccaleobion, cultivate, humidified.

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