incubator en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.tə(ɹ)/ (UK)
- audio Brisbane
- [ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.ɾə(ɹ)] (Australia)
- [ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.ɾɚ] (US)
Etymology
From incubate + -or.
Meanings
- Any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.
- An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby.
- An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs.
- A place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature.
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A support programme for the development of entrepreneurial companies.
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.
2014 March 10, Cory Doctorow, “The slow death of Silicon Roundabout”, in The Guardian, →ISSN: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.
2006, Philip N. Cooke, Creative Industries in Wales: Potential and Pitfalls, page 34:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| incubators | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Relateds
incubation · incubative · incubate
Synonyms
Translations (103)
hu inkubátor (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · pt incubadora (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · ko 보육기 (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · gl incubadora (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · fi hautomo (support program for entrepreneurial companies) · hu inkubátor (support program for entrepreneurial companies) · uk інкуба́тор (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · it incubatore (support program for entrepreneurial companies) · fr incubateur (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · lad encovadera (place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature) · ko 인큐베이터 (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · fi hautomakone (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · ru инкуба́тор (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · it incubatrice (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · uk інкуба́тор (support program for entrepreneurial companies) · pt chocadeira (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · es incubadora (support program for entrepreneurial companies) · af broeikas (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · fr couveuse (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · cs inkubátor (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · de Inkubator (support program for entrepreneurial companies) · cmn 保溫箱 /保温箱 (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · ca incubadora (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · bg инкубатор (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · ja 孵卵器 (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · ko 부화기 (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · hu keltető (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · lad klochkal (place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature) · tr kuvöz (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · pt incubadeira (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · st seqhotsisi (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · fi keskoskaappi (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · fr incubateur (place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature) · fr couveuse (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · cmn 孵化器 (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · hu keltetőszekrény (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · es incubadora (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · cmn 恆溫箱 /恒温箱 (place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature) · ar حَاضِنَة (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · ja 定温器 (place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature) · hu termosztát (place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature) · cmn 恆溫器 /恒温器 (place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature) · ko 정온기 (place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature) · cmn 孵化器 (support program for entrepreneurial companies) · pl inkubator (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · cmn 孵蛋器 (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · la incubātrix (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · de Brutkasten (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · fi inkubaattori (place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature) · sv inkubator (support program for entrepreneurial companies) · lad klochkal (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · fr incubateur (support program for entrepreneurial companies) · pl inkubator (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · ja 保育器 (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · ro incubator (chemistry: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction) · bg инкубатор (support program for entrepreneurial companies) · lad encovadera (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · es incubadora (place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature) · ko 부란기 (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · pl inkubator (support program for entrepreneurial companies) · lad enkübatör (chemistry: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction) · es estufa de cultivo (place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature) · lad kuvöz (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · lad klochkal (chemistry: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction) · lad enkübatör (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · de Inkubator (place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature) · hu keltetőgép (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · cmn 保育器 (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · tl limliman (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · st seqhotsisi (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · de Brutkasten (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · ja インキュベーター (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · fr incubateur (chemistry: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction) · fi inkubaattori (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · tl pamisaan (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · ja 孵化器 (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · ro incubator (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · bg кувьоз (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · sv företagskuvös (support program for entrepreneurial companies) · nl couveuse (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · ro incubator (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · ro incubator (place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature) · ru инкуба́тор (chemistry: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction) · pt incubadora (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · hu keltető (support program for entrepreneurial companies) · hu csíráztatókamra (place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature) · la incubātor (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · af broeikas (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · hu inkubátor (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · ca incubadora (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · uk інкуба́тор (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · lad klochkal (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · pt incubadora (chemistry: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction) · hu csíráztató (place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature) · ru инкуба́тор (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · hu inkubátor (chemistry: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction) · es incubadora (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · cmn 育嬰箱 /育婴箱 (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · ca incubadora (support program for entrepreneurial companies) · de Inkubator (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby) · hu tojáskeltető (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs) · hu inkubátor (place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature) · gl incubadora (medicine: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby)