incubator

English

Etymology

From incubate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.tə(ɹ)/
(US) IPA^(key): [ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.ɾɚ]
(General Australian) IPA^(key): [ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.ɾə(ɹ)]
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Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

incubator (plural incubators)

(chemistry) Any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.
(medicine) An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby.
Synonym: brooder
An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs.
Synonym: brooder
A place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature.
(business) A support programme for the development of entrepreneurial companies.
- 2006, Philip N. Cooke, Creative Industries in Wales: Potential and Pitfalls (page 34)
  So the question that is commonly asked is, why put a media incubator in a media desert and have it managed by a civil servant? This gets to the heart of the institutional support problem in Wales.

Related terms

Translations

chemistry: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction

French: incubateur (fr) m
Hungarian: inkubátor
Ladino: klochkal, enkübatör
Portuguese: incubadora f
Romanian: incubator (ro) n
Russian: инкуба́тор (ru) m (inkubátor)

apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby

Afrikaans: broeikas
Arabic: حَاضِنَة‎‎ f (ḥāḍina)
Bulgarian: кувьоз m (kuvjoz)
Catalan: incubadora f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 保育器 (bǎoyùqì), 育嬰箱／育婴箱 (yùyīngxiāng)
Czech: inkubátor (cs) m
Dutch: couveuse (nl)
Finnish: keskoskaappi (fi), inkubaattori
French: incubateur (fr) m, couveuse (fr) f
Galician: incubadora f
German: Brutkasten (de) m, (scientific:) Inkubator (de) m
Hungarian: inkubátor
Italian: incubatrice (it) f
Japanese: 保育器 (hoikuki), インキュベーター (inkyubētā)
Ladino: kuvöz, klochkal, enkübatör, encovadera
Polish: inkubator (pl) m
Portuguese: incubadora f
Romanian: incubator (ro) n
Russian: инкуба́тор (ru) m (inkubátor)
Sotho: seqhotsisi
Spanish: incubadora (es) f
Tagalog: limliman
Turkish: kuvöz (tr)
Ukrainian: інкуба́тор (uk) m (inkubátor)

apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs

Afrikaans: broeikas
Bulgarian: инкубатор (bg) m (inkubator)
Catalan: incubadora f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 孵化器 (zh) (fūhuàqì)
Finnish: hautomakone
French: couveuse (fr) f
Galician: incubadora f
German: Brutkasten (de) m
Hungarian: keltető, keltetőszekrény, keltetőgép (hu), tojáskeltető, inkubátor
Japanese: 孵化器 (ふかき, fukaki), 孵卵器 (ja) (ふらんき, furanki)
Ladino: klochkal
Polish: inkubator (pl) m
Portuguese: incubadora f, incubadeira f, chocadeira (pt) f
Romanian: incubator (ro) n
Russian: инкуба́тор (ru) m (inkubátor)
Sotho: seqhotsisi
Spanish: incubadora (es) f
Tagalog: pamisaan
Ukrainian: інкуба́тор (uk) m (inkubátor)

place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature

Chinese:
Mandarin: 恆溫器／恒温器 (zh) (héngwēnqì)
Finnish: inkubaattori
French: incubateur (fr) m
German: Inkubator (de) m
Hungarian: inkubátor, termosztát (hu), csíráztató, csíráztatókamra
Japanese: 定温器 (teionki)
Ladino: klochkal, encovadera
Romanian: incubator (ro) n
Spanish: estufa de cultivo f, incubadora (es) f

support program for entrepreneurial companies

Bulgarian: инкубатор (bg) m (inkubator)
Finnish: hautomo (fi)
French: incubateur (fr) m
German: Inkubator (de) m
Hungarian: inkubátor, keltető
Italian: incubatore (it) m
Polish: inkubator (pl) m
Spanish: incubadora (es) f
Swedish: inkubator (sv) c, företagskuvös c
Ukrainian: інкуба́тор (uk) m (inkubátor)

Romanian

Etymology

From French incubateur.

Noun

incubator n (plural incubatoare)

incubator

Declension

Declension of incubator

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) incubator	incubatorul	(niște) incubatoare	incubatoarele
genitive/dative	(unui) incubator	incubatorului	(unor) incubatoare	incubatoarelor
vocative	incubatorule		incubatoarelor

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