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What is the noun for incubate?

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incubation
  1. Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.
  2. (pathology) The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
  3. (chemistry) A period of little reaction which is followed by more rapid reaction.
  4. (psychology) One of the four proposed stages of creativity (preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification): the unconscious recombination of thought elements that were stimulated through conscious work at one point in time, resulting in novel ideas at a later point.
  5. Sleeping in a temple or other holy place in order to have oracular dreams.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Ambient temperature is commonly thought to influence avian incubation.”
      “There is no support for the idea that female larks work harder during the chick rearing period compared with the incubation period.”
      “After incubation, the assay solution with roots was filtered and a 1 mL aliquot from each sample was removed to a new tube.”
incubator
  1. (chemistry) Any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.
  2. (medicine) 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. (business) A support programme for the development of entrepreneurial companies.
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    1. “The purpose of an infant incubator is to secure and improve the chances of survival of a premature or weakly infant.”
      “Fumigation of the eggs in the incubator will prevent bacteria from entering the egg and killing the developing embryo.”
      “After our ultimately disastrous first attempt at using our incubator this is just the ticket.”
incubiture
  1. (obsolete) incubation
incubations
  1. plural of incubation
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  3. Examples:
    1. “There was no measurable incorporation of C into sucrose, hexoses or the raffinose family of oligosaccharides at any stage of the incubations.”
      “They show that Siberian permafrost carbon decomposes quickly when thawed, both in in-situ and laboratory incubations.”
      “Strict adherence to the specified time and temperature of incubations is essential for accurate results.”
incubators
  1. plural of incubator
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Across the country, business incubators and accelerators reflect the needs and wants of their respective communities.”
      “Portland has its fair share of startup incubators, accelerators and coworking spaces.”
      “Microfinance, crowdfunding, and incubators are worth pursuing, say business owners.”
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