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Incubation   /ˌɪŋkjubˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Incubation

noun
1.
Maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development.
2.
(pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear.
3.
Sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body.  Synonym: brooding.



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"Incubation" Quotes from Famous Books



... the gaze of Astaroth, rushed into the antechamber, after bowing to the terrible old woman. He was moist from head to foot, as if under the incubation of some evil spirit. ...
— Unconscious Comedians • Honore de Balzac
... their turn at the prodigious coolness of a tender parent. "Not exactly," said Dr. Wycherley; "I am habitually averse to exaggeration of symptoms. Your son's suggest to me 'the Incubation of ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... strongly recommends the study of this volume to Mr. OSCAR WILDE; it will save him hours of painful cogitation during the incubation of his ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 20, 1893 • Various
... in monosyllables: the boy would make fatuous replies to his questions. Olivier would lose heart: he would try not to let it be seen: but he thought he had made a mistake, and that the boy was thoroughly stupid. He could not see the frightful fevered travail in incubation that was going on in the inner depths of the boy's soul. Besides, he was a bad teacher, and was more fitted to sow the good seed at random in the fields than to weed the soil and plow the furrows. Christophe's presence only served to increase the difficulty. Olivier felt a certain ...
— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland
... the course of my little excursion, I so interfere with the process that I can never again find out what is worthy of being preserved, or what should be given in full length, what in torso, or what merely in profile. This process of incubation may be unreasonably prolonged; and I am somewhat afraid that I have made this mistake with the present journey. Like a bad daguerreotype, great part of it has been entirely lost; I can tell you nothing about the ...
— Essays of Travel • Robert Louis Stevenson


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