Definitions for incubator

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incubator in·cu·ba·tor

Spelling: [in-kyuh-bey-ter, ing-]

IPA: /ˈɪn kyəˌbeɪ tər, ˈɪŋ-/

Incubator is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 600 anagrams from letters in incubator (abcinortu).

Definitions for incubator

noun

1. an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
2. an enclosed apparatus in which prematurely born infants are kept in controlled conditions, as of temperature, for protection and care.
3. an apparatus in which media inoculated with microorganisms are cultivated at a constant temperature.
4. a person or thing that incubates.

Origin of incubator

1855-60; Late Latin: literally, one who lies in or upon (something). See incubate, -tor

Examples for incubator

He must have been an incubator baby, or else been found under a cabbage-leaf.

"The incubator has not done all that it should have done," I said.

However, we're counting our chickens a long while before the incubator's opened.

I exist merely as meat for the hungry wolf, an incubator for his progeny and a servant to his needs.

The incubator kids swings like they was on a pivot, and piles in after him.

He now works for the mayor of New York running their incubator for tech companies.

Now five guys who program can pitch their company and get $100,000 from an incubator.

America has long been the incubator of many spiritual creeds going back to the Great Awakening and even earlier.

Label one of the tubes "Control" and place it in the incubator at 18° C.

It launched in February an incubator to foster education start-ups.