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Incubation

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The word incubation and similar (from the Latin incubare, "to lie upon") may refer to:

Science

  • Avian incubation, sitting on or brooding bird's eggs in order to hatch them
  • Incubation period, a medical term for the time between being exposed to infection and showing first symptoms
  • Incubate (festival), an annual independent culture festival in Tilburg, The Netherlands
  • Incubation (psychology), the process of thinking about a problem subconsciously while being involved in other activities
  • Incubator (microbiology), a device for maintaining a bacterial culture at a particular temperature for a set length of time, in order to measure bacterial growth
  • Incubator (for birds' eggs)
  • incubation, in microbiology means holding cultures of microorganisms at a controlled temperature to improve their growth.

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