Incubator

Definition: Incubator

Incubator

Noun

1. Apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants.

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Date "incubator" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references)

Finance

Food & Agriculture

Medicine

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Synonym: Incubator

Crosswords: Incubator

Romanian (foster mother, grille, incubator, nursery).

Bobby Bumps' Incubator (1918)

The Incubator (1995)

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Books

• Bricks and Mortar: How to Find and Design the Best Business Incubator Facilities (reference)

• Human Resources: Finding the Right Staff For Your Incubator (reference)

• Incubator Resource Kit (reference)

• Malleefowl: The Incubator Bird (Picture Roo Books Series) (reference)

• Sustaining Economic Growth: The Positive Impact of the Michigan Incubator Industry 1985-1995 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Detrait Incubator [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Newly hatched chicks in incubator. Credit: USDA.

[Incubators: An ambulance incubator and its case]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Portable incubator. / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Japanese relocation. Sam Rice, former major league baseball player, shows three Japanese-Americans who will work at his poultry farm near Olney, Maryland, the incubator house. The new arrivals came from the Colorado River Relocation Center. Shown left to. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chicken incubator. Westmoreland Homesteads, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Habersham, Georgia. NYA youth learning modern incubator techniques from a local farmer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Nicaragua

The growing Nicaraguan poultry meat industry, high-quality U.S. genetics, and adequate incubator space have led to increased poultry genetics imports, mostly from the United States. (references)

Mauritius

The National Computer Board will set up an ICT incubator to promote start-ups, and will implement the Government On-line Center project that will allow each ministry to have its own interactive website accessible through a common Government Portal. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "incubator": artificial incubator ♦ business incubator ♦ californian incubator ♦ incubator centre ♦ incubator for newborn. Additional references.

Albanian

inkubator (brooder, nursery, rearer). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفقسة (hatchery), ‏حاضن للأطفال, ‏طير حاضن, ‏المحضن جهاز التحضين, ‏راخم حاضن (hatcher), ‏دار حضانة (day nursery). (various references)

Bulgarian 

инкубатор (hatcher, mother, nursery). (various references)

Chinese 

孵养器. (various references)

Czech

inkubátor (hatchery). (various references)

Danish

inkubator (californian incubator, drying chamber, drying oven), incubator (artificial incubator, breeding box for premature infants, couveuse, incubator for newborn), varmekasse (artificial incubator, breeding box for premature infants, couveuse, incubator for newborn), udrugningsmaskine, udrugningsapparat, toerreskab (airing cupboard, drying chamber, drying oven), rugemaskine, kuvoese (artificial incubator, breeding box for premature infants, couveuse, incubator for newborn), kuvøse til for tidligt fødte børn (artificial incubator, breeding box for premature infants, couveuse, incubator for newborn), kuvøse (artificial incubator, breeding box for premature infants, couveuse, incubator for newborn), couveuse til spaedboern (artificial incubator, breeding box for premature infants, couveuse, incubator for newborn), couveuse (artificial incubator, breeding box for premature infants, couveuse, incubator for newborn). (various references)

Dutch

incubator voor zuigelingen (artificial incubator, breeding box for premature infants, couveuse, incubator for newborn), incubator (artificial incubator, bacteriological incubator, breeding box for premature infants, couveuse, incubator for newborn), droogstoof (drying chamber, drying oven, furnace, hearth, kiln, stove), couveuse voor zuigelingen (artificial incubator, breeding box for premature infants, couveuse, incubator for newborn), couveuse voor prematuur geborenen (artificial incubator, breeding box for premature infants, couveuse, incubator for newborn), couveuse (artificial incubator, breeding box for premature infants, couveuse, incubator for newborn), broedstoof (bacteriological incubator, drying chamber, drying oven), broedmachine, broeder (brother, nurse, sibling). (various references)

Farsi 

محل پرورش اطفال زودرس , ماشین جوجه کشی . (various references)

Finnish

yrityshautomo, lämpökaappi (warming cupboard), keinoemo, hautomakoje, bakteerien kasvatuskaappi. (various references)

French

incubateur (incubatory), couveuse (artificial incubator, breeding box for premature infants, incubator for newborn). (various references)

German

brutkasten (artificial incubator, breeding box for premature infants, couveuse, incubator for newborn), brutapparat (artificial incubator, breeding box for premature infants, couveuse, incubator for newborn), inkubator (artificial incubator, breeding box for premature infants, couveuse, drying chamber, drying oven, incubator for newborn), brutschrank (drying chamber, drying oven). (various references)

Greek 

εκκολαπτήριο, θερμοκοιτίδα (artificial incubator, breeding box for premature infants, couveuse, incubator for newborn). (various references)

Hebrew 

מדגרה (hatchery). (various references)

Hungarian

inkubátor. (various references)

Indonesian

pengeram. (various references)

Italian

incubatrice (artificial incubator, breeding box for premature infants, commercial brooder, couveuse, drying chamber, drying oven, hatchery, incubator for newborn). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

恒温器 , 孵化器 , 孵卵器 , イメージ調査 (99.999999999 percent., bad bounce, bad hop, ear protector, ear valve, earmark, earphone, earring, eleven, eleven nines, eraser, eruption, Ile de France, illegal, Illinois, illumination, illumination control, illusion, illustrated map, illustration, illustrator, image change, image survey, in, include, income, income gain, income tax, increment, incremental, incremental business, incubate, incubation, ink, inn, Iran, Iraq, iridium, irony, Iroquois, irrational, irregular, irregular bound, yearbook, year-round fashion), 保育器 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふかき, ふらんき, ほいくき, こうおんき, インキュベーター , インキュベータ . (various references)

Korean 

부화기. (various references)

Manx

guirreyder (sitter). (various references)

Norwegian

rugemaskin, kuvøse. (various references)

Pig Latin

incubatoray.(various references)

Portuguese

incubadora (broody hen, grille, hatcher, hatchery), chocadeira (brooder, hatcher). (various references)

Romanian

incubator (foster mother, grille, nursery), clocitoare (brooding, broody). (various references)

Russian 

инкубатор (hatcher, nursery, rearer). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

inkubator (hatcher). (various references)

Spanish

incubadora (brooder). (various references)

Swedish

äggkläckningsmaskin (rearer). (various references)

Turkish

kuvöz, kuluçka makinesi (brooder, hatcher, thermal breeder), bakteri üretmeye yarayan alet. (various references)

Turkmen 

inkubator (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

інкубатор (hatcher, mother, nursery, rearer), термостат (thermostat). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lò ấp trứng lồng nuôi trẻ em đẻ non. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "incubator": incubators, incubatory. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Incubator" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incubat, incubater, incubtor, incubutor. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: auction, botanic, caribou, carotin, caution, corbina, courant, curtain, rainout, ruction, taborin.

-3 letters: action, anuric, aortic, aroint, atonic, bicorn, bicron, bonaci, bonita, brucin, burton, cantor, carbon, carton, cation, citron, cobnut, contra, corban, cornua, cortin, craton, nutria, obtain, outran, ration, rubati, rubato, tabour, toucan, tunica, turaco, turban, uranic, uratic.

-4 letters: abort, about, acorn, actin, actor.

+1 letter: buccinator, incubators, incubatory.

+2 letters: bifurcation, buccinators, carburetion, conurbation, lubrication, lucubration, multicarbon, obscurantic, obscuration, rubrication, subtraction.

+3 letters: bifurcations, binocularity, carburetions, conurbations, elucubration, lubrications, lucubrations, obscurantism, obscurantist, obscurations, rambunctious, rubrications, subtractions, tubocurarine.

+4 letters: antiscorbutic, backcountries, carburization, elucubrations, obscurantisms, obscurantists, relubrication, republication, subcontraries, tubocurarines, unproblematic.

+5 letters: antiscorbutics, binocularities, carburizations, constabularies, cyanobacterium, prepublication, rambunctiously, rediscountable, relubrications, republications, subcontracting, turbomachinery.