incubator

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Etymology

From incubate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.tə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): [ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.ɾɚ]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): [ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.ɾə(ɹ)]

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• 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.

   Synonym: brooder

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

   Synonym: brooder

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.

   • 2014 March 10, Cory Doctorow, “The slow death of Silicon Roundabout”, in The Guardian‎, →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.

Derived terms

• bioincubator
• microincubator

Related terms

• incubate
• incubation
• incubative

Translations

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

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

apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby

Afrikaans: broeikas Arabic: حَاضِنَة f (ḥāḍina) Bulgarian: кувьоз m (kuvjoz) Catalan: incubadora f Chinese: Mandarin: 保育器 (bǎoyùqì), 育嬰箱 / 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 (hu) Italian: incubatrice (it) f Japanese: 保育器 (ja) (hoikuki), インキュベーター (ja) (inkyubētā) Korean: 보육기(保育器) (ko) (boyukgi), 인큐베이터 (ko) (inkyubeiteo) Ladino: kuvöz, klochkal, enkübatör, encovadera Polish: inkubator (pl) m Portuguese: incubadora f Romanian: incubator (ro) n Russian: инкуба́тор (ru) m (inkubátor) Sotho: seqhotsisi Spanish: incubadora (es) f Tagalog: limliman Turkish: kuvöz (tr) Ukrainian: інкуба́тор (uk) m (inkubátor)

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 Hungarian: keltető (hu), keltetőszekrény, keltetőgép (hu), tojáskeltető, inkubátor (hu) Japanese: 孵化器 (ja) (ふかき, fukaki), 孵卵器 (ja) (ふらんき, furanki) Korean: 부화기(孵化器) (buhwagi), 부란기(孵卵器) (buran'gi) Ladino: klochkal Polish: inkubator (pl) m 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 Ukrainian: інкуба́тор (uk) m (inkubátor)

place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature

Chinese: Mandarin: 恆溫器 / 恒温器 (zh) (héngwēnqì) Finnish: inkubaattori French: incubateur (fr) m German: Inkubator (de) m Hungarian: inkubátor (hu), termosztát (hu), csíráztató, csíráztatókamra Japanese: 定温器 (teionki) Korean: 정온기(定溫器) (jeong'on'gi) Ladino: klochkal, encovadera Romanian: incubator (ro) n Spanish: estufa de cultivo f, incubadora (es) f

support program for entrepreneurial companies

Bulgarian: инкубатор (bg) m (inkubator) Finnish: hautomo (fi) French: incubateur (fr) m German: Inkubator (de) m Hungarian: inkubátor (hu), keltető (hu) Italian: incubatore (it) m Polish: inkubator (pl) m Spanish: incubadora (es) f Swedish: inkubator (sv) c, företagskuvös c Ukrainian: інкуба́тор (uk) m (inkubátor)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French incubateur. By surface analysis, incuba +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.ku.baˈtor/

Noun

incubator n (plural incubatoare)

1. incubator

Declension

Declension of incubator

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	incubator	incubatorul		incubatoare	incubatoarele
genitive-dative	incubator	incubatorului		incubatoare	incubatoarelor
vocative	incubatorule			incubatoarelor