incubator

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Eytmology

incubate +‎ -ator

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɪn.kjuːˈbeɪ.tə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /In.kju:"beI.t@(r\)/
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

incubator (plural incubators)

1. (chemistry) Any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.
2. (medicine) An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby.
3. An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs.
4. A place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature.
5. (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.

Related terms

• incubate
• incubation
• incubative

Translations

chemistry: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction

• French: incubateur (fr) m
• Romanian: incubator (ro) n, incubatoare (ro) n pl

• Russian: инкубатор (ru) (inkubátor) m 

apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby

• Afrikaans: broeikas (af)
• Catalan: incubadora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 保育器 (cmn) (bǎoyùqì), 育嬰箱 (cmn), 育婴箱 (cmn) (yùyīngxiāng)

• Czech: inkubátor (cs) m
• Finnish: keskoskaappi (fi), inkubaattori (fi)
• French: incubateur (fr) m
• Galician: incubadora (gl) f

• German: Inkubator (de) m, Brutkasten (de) m
• Italian: incubatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 保育器 (ja) (hoikuki), インキュベーター (ja) (inkyubētā)
• Portuguese: incubadora (pt) f
• Romanian: incubator (ro) n
• Russian: инкубатор (ru) (inkubátor) m 
• Sotho: seqhotsisi (st)
• Spanish: incubadora (es) f

apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs

• Afrikaans: broeikas (af)
• Catalan: incubadora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 孵化器 (cmn) (fūhuàqì)

• Finnish: hautomakone (fi)
• French: incubateur (fr) m
• Galician: incubadora (gl) f

• German: Brutkasten (de) m
• Japanese: 孵卵器 (ja) (furanki)
• Romanian: incubator (ro) n
• Russian: инкубатор (ru) (inkubátor) m 
• Sotho: seqhotsisi (st)
• Spanish: incubadora (es) f

place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 恆溫器 (cmn), 恒温器 (cmn) (héngwēnqì)

• Finnish: inkubaattori (fi)

• French: incubateur (fr) m
• Japanese: 定温器 (ja) (teionki)
• Romanian: incubator (ro) n