incubator

English

Etymology

From incubate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪn.kjuːˈbeɪ.tə(ɹ)/
• 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.

Synonyms

• (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby): brooder
• (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs): brooder

Related terms

• incubate
• incubation
• incubative

Translations

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

• French: incubateur (fr) m
• Hungarian: inkubátor
• Ladino: klochkal, enkübatör
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• Portuguese: incubadora f
• Romanian: incubator (ro) n, incubatoare n pl
• Russian: инкуба́тор (ru) m (inkubátor)

apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby

• Afrikaans: broeikas
• Bulgarian: кувьоз m (kuvjoz)
• Catalan: incubadora f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: inkubátor (cs) m
• Dutch: couveuse (nl)
• Finnish: keskoskaappi (fi), inkubaattori
• French: incubateur (fr) m, couveuse (fr) f
• Galician: incubadora f
• German: Brutkasten (de) m, (scientific:) Inkubator (de) m
• Hungarian: inkubátor
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• Italian: incubatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 保育器 (hoikuki), インキュベーター (inkyubētā)
• Ladino: kuvöz, klochkal, enkübatör, encovadera
• Portuguese: incubadora f
• Romanian: incubator (ro) n
• Russian: инкуба́тор (ru) m (inkubátor)
• Sotho: seqhotsisi
• Spanish: incubadora (es) f
• Tagalog: limliman
• Turkish: kuvöz (tr)

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

• Afrikaans: broeikas
• Bulgarian: инкубатор (bg) m (inkubator)
• Catalan: incubadora f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 孵化器 (zh) (fūhuàqì)

• Finnish: hautomakone
• French: couveuse (fr) f
• Galician: incubadora f
• German: Brutkasten (de) m
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• Hungarian: keltető, keltetőszekrény, keltetőgép (hu), tojáskeltető, inkubátor
• Japanese: 孵化器 (ふかき, fukaki), 孵卵器 (ja) (ふらんき, furanki)
• Ladino: klochkal
• Portuguese: incubadora f, incubadeira f, chocadeira (pt) f
• Romanian: incubator (ro) n
• Russian: инкуба́тор (ru) m (inkubátor)
• Sotho: seqhotsisi
• Spanish: incubadora (es) f
• Tagalog: pamisaan

place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 恆溫器／恒温器 (zh) (héngwēnqì), 恒温器 (zh) (héngwēnqì)

• Finnish: inkubaattori
• French: incubateur (fr) m
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• Hungarian: inkubátor, termosztát, csíráztató, csíráztatókamra
• Japanese: 定温器 (teionki)
• Ladino: klochkal, encovadera
• Romanian: incubator (ro) n

support program for entrepreneurial companies

• Bulgarian: инкубатор (bg) m (inkubator)
• Finnish: hautomo (fi)
• French: incubateur (fr) m
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• Hungarian: inkubátor, keltető
• Spanish: incubadora (es) f
• Swedish: inkubator (sv) c, företagskuvös c