Associations to the word «Incubator»

Wiktionary

INCUBATOR, noun. (chemistry) Any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.
INCUBATOR, noun. (medicine) An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby.
INCUBATOR, noun. An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs.
INCUBATOR, noun. A place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature.
INCUBATOR, noun. (business) A support programme for the development of entrepreneurial companies.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats