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单词 incubation
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Definition of incubation in English:

incubation

noun ɪŋkjʊˈbeɪʃ(ə)nˌɪŋkjəˈbeɪʃ(ə)n
mass noun
  • The process of incubating eggs, cells, bacteria, a disease, etc.

    the chick hatches after a month's incubation
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The inoculum size and incubation conditions were the same as mentioned earlier.
    • Thus, the benefits to offspring of male incubation may be reduced in various species.
    • Pairs form during winter and spring, and dissolve after the female begins incubation.
    • Business incubation as a concept is developing around the world.
    • All washes were at room temperature and repeated following each incubation.
    • Viable molds and bacteria were determined by incubation on two different media.
    • Embryos in the eggs do not begin to develop until their mother warms them through incubation.
    • After incubation, the number of elongated motile promastigotes were counted.
    • Cultures were considered negative for Brucella only after four weeks of incubation.
    • Births occur almost a month after incubation, in tune with the next lunar cycle.
    • This may be due to active consumption of glyoxylate during incubation of the samples.
    • There are several reversions to male incubation from a shared incubation ancestor.
    • After a second overnight incubation and washing, the detection antibody is added.
    • Sensitivity of culture isolation increased with higher initial inocula and shorter incubation.
    • It is infectious but the transmission of infection and the period of incubation of the disease are unusual.
    • At the conclusion of incubation, the cells and media were removed and centrifuged.
    • Condors typically lay only one egg per season, with the male assisting in incubation.
    • Lepromatous disease has a mean clinical incubation time of 10 years.
    • Moreover, contents of lactate in stem tissues increased at an early stage of anaerobic incubation.
    • Such events would occur during their incubation in the mammalian lysate.
    Synonyms
    pregnancy, development, maturation, ripening

Derivatives

  • incubative

  • adjective ˈɪŋkjʊˌbeɪtɪvˈɪnkjəˌbeɪdɪv
    • A native of Queen Anne Hill, Maricich spent an incubative decade in Olympia, but recently moved from her cosy home there to Portland, in order to be the artist in residence at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The center will be built into an incubative base of new and high technology and products.
      • The trees can harbor the disease, in an incubative state, for up to a year, before showing the first external signs of Lethal Yellowing, so numerous trees could be infected before the first tree is even diagnosed with the disease.
      • Endow cutting-edge transdisciplinary projects with an incubative environment and research support to foster major funding capabilities
      • The prolonged incubative period of the disease and the remarkable resistance of the causal agent to formalin are features of distinct interest.
  • incubatory

  • adjective ˈɪŋkjʊˌbeɪt(ə)riɪnˈkjubəˌtɔri
    • It may be best to remove the floating plants to an incubatory tank at the conclusion of the spawning ritual.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A similar view of the head, and the incubatory pouch lying on the right side of the pallial skirt.
      • Insects maturing from larvae in the container 11 are adapted to migrate from the incubatory chamber within the container 11 by way of openings 30 in the floor partition 23 and enter the housing chamber 14.
      • Female ovo-larviparous (common oviduct with a bilobed incubatory pouch) and with short, non-telescopic terminalia; common oviduct with bilobed incubatory pouch.
      • What was happening in those blank, incubatory months?

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin incubatio(n-) 'brooding', from the verb incubare (see incubate).

  • cubicle from Late Middle English:

    A cubicle is now any small partitioned-off area, but at first it was specifically a little place for lying down or a bedroom. The source is Latin cubiculum, from cubare ‘to lie down’, source also of incumbent (Late Middle English). Incubation (early 17th century) is based on the same Latin word, as is concubine (Middle English), originally someone you go to bed with.

 
 

Definition of incubation in US English:

incubation

nounˌɪŋkjəˈbeɪʃ(ə)nˌiNGkyəˈbāSH(ə)n
  • The process of incubating eggs, cells, bacteria, a disease, etc.

    the chick hatches after a month's incubation
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is infectious but the transmission of infection and the period of incubation of the disease are unusual.
    • There are several reversions to male incubation from a shared incubation ancestor.
    • After incubation, the number of elongated motile promastigotes were counted.
    • Such events would occur during their incubation in the mammalian lysate.
    • Cultures were considered negative for Brucella only after four weeks of incubation.
    • At the conclusion of incubation, the cells and media were removed and centrifuged.
    • Pairs form during winter and spring, and dissolve after the female begins incubation.
    • Condors typically lay only one egg per season, with the male assisting in incubation.
    • The inoculum size and incubation conditions were the same as mentioned earlier.
    • Moreover, contents of lactate in stem tissues increased at an early stage of anaerobic incubation.
    • After a second overnight incubation and washing, the detection antibody is added.
    • Births occur almost a month after incubation, in tune with the next lunar cycle.
    • Thus, the benefits to offspring of male incubation may be reduced in various species.
    • This may be due to active consumption of glyoxylate during incubation of the samples.
    • Embryos in the eggs do not begin to develop until their mother warms them through incubation.
    • Business incubation as a concept is developing around the world.
    • All washes were at room temperature and repeated following each incubation.
    • Sensitivity of culture isolation increased with higher initial inocula and shorter incubation.
    • Viable molds and bacteria were determined by incubation on two different media.
    • Lepromatous disease has a mean clinical incubation time of 10 years.
    Synonyms
    pregnancy, development, maturation, ripening

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin incubatio(n-) ‘brooding’, from the verb incubare (see incubate).

 
 
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