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)

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.

   Synonym: brooder

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

   Synonym: brooder

4. A place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature.
5. (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.

   • 2014 March 10, Cory Doctorow, “The slow death of Silicon Roundabout”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Tech City is very big on "incubators" – places where startups are supposed to grow out of a collection of adjacent desks in a huge barracks of other adjacent desks – and on luring big firms to the East End of London.

Related terms

• incubate
• incubation
• incubative

 

Translations

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

• French: incubateur (fr) m
• Hungarian: inkubátor (hu)
• 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 (hu)
• Italian: incubatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 保育器 (ja) (hoikuki), インキュベーター (ja) (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 (hu), keltetőszekrény, keltetőgép (hu), tojáskeltető, inkubátor (hu)
• Japanese: 孵化器 (ja) (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 (hu), 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 (hu), keltető (hu)
• 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

Borrowed from French incubateur. By surface analysis, incuba +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.ku.baˈtor/

Noun

incubator n (plural incubatoare)

1. incubator

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	incubator	incubatorul		incubatoare	incubatoarele
genitive-dative	incubator	incubatorului		incubatoare	incubatoarelor
vocative	incubatorule			incubatoarelor