Incubation

Definition:

  • (n.) A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process.
  • (n.) The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
  • (n.) A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.

Compare incubation with other words:

incubation vs. intubation

incubation vs. prodrome

incubation vs. inhalation

hatching vs. incubation

brood vs. incubation

incubation vs. incubator

incubation vs. incubative

incubate vs. incubation