incubation
11incubation — (in ku ba sion ; en vers, de cinq syllabes) s. f. 1° Action de couver. • Jamais il [le rossignol] ne chante avec plus de force et de continuité que quand il la voit [sa femelle] travaillée des douleurs de la ponte, et ennuyée d une longue et… …
12incubation — incubational, incubatory /in kyeuh beuh tawr ee, tohr ee, ing /, adj. /in kyeuh bay sheuhn, ing /, n. 1. the act or process of incubating. 2. the state of being incubated. 3. See incubation period. [1605 15; < L incubation (s. of incubatio). See… …
13INCUBATION — n. f. Action des volatiles qui couvent des oeufs. La chaleur de certains fours peut suppléer à l’incubation. L’incubation artificielle. Il se dit en termes de Médecine, du Temps qui s’écoule entre le moment où l’organisme est affecté par une… …
14incubation — noun a) Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process. Incubation in the vicinity of burial places, cremation grounds, holy wells and sacred streams was common. The… …
15incubation — 1. Act of maintaining controlled environmental conditions for the purpose of favoring growth or development of microbial or tissue cultures or to maintain optimal conditions for a chemical or immunologic reaction. 2. Maintenance of an artificial… …
16Incubation — A trial process in which a fund company operates a number of funds privately with its own capital or employee capital, and only opens the top performing funds to the public. The higher performing funds that survive the incubation period are used… …
17incubation — noun Date: 1646 1. the act or process of incubating 2. incubation period …
18INCUBATION — s. f. Action des volatiles qui couvent des oeufs. La chaleur de certains fours peut suppléer à l incubation …
19incubation — noun Incubation is used before these nouns: ↑period …
20incubation — in·cu·ba·tion || ‚ɪnkjÉ™ beɪʃn / kjÊŠ b n. act or process of incubating; hatching; growing, development; incubation period, time between the contraction of an infection and the appearance of symptoms …
