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Vinony

incubator

noun

  1. medical device for newborn babies
  2. device for egg hatching
  3. device for bacterial growth
  4. business development facility
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.tə(ɹ)/ / [ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.ɾɚ] / [ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.ɾə(ɹ)]

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English incubate English -or English incubator From incubate + -or.

  1. Any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.
  2. 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. A support programme for the development of entrepreneurial companies.

    “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.”