An incubator is anything that performs or facilitates various forms of incubation, and may refer to:
Biology and medicine
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Incubator (culture)
An incubator is a device used to grow and maintain microbiological cultures or cell cultures. The incubator maintains optimal temperature, humidity and other conditions such as the CO2 and oxygen content of the atmosphere inside. Incubators are ...
, a device used to grow and maintain microbiological cultures or cell cultures
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Incubator (egg)
An incubator is a device simulating avian incubation by keeping eggs warm at a particular temperature range and in the correct humidity with a turning mechanism to hatch them.
The common names of the incubator in other terms include ''breeding / ...
, a device for maintaining the eggs of birds or reptiles to allow them to hatch
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Incubator (neonatal)
A neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), also known as an intensive care nursery (ICN), is an intensive care unit (ICU) specializing in the care of ill or premature newborn infants. Neonatal refers to the first 28 days of life. Neonatal care, as kn ...
, a device used to care for premature babies in a neonatal intensive-care unit
Arts and entertainment
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"Incubator" (Farscape episode), a 2001 episode of the American TV series
* "Incubator", a song by the Israeli rock band, HaClique, in their 1981 album, ''
Ima Ani Lo Rotze Lehigamel''
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"Incubator", Kyubey's true identity in the anime ''
Puella Magi Madoka Magica''
Other uses
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Business incubator
Business incubator is an organization that helps startup companies and individual entrepreneurs to develop their businesses by providing a fullscale range of services starting with management training and office space and ending with venture c ...
, a company that helps new and startup companies to develop by providing services such as management training or office space
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Apache Incubator
Apache Incubator is the gateway for open-source projects intended to become fully fledged Apache Software Foundation projects.
The Incubator project was created in October 2002 to provide an entry path to the Apache Software Foundation for proj ...
, a gateway for open source projects under the Apache Software Foundation
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Wikimedia Incubator
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., or Wikimedia for short and abbreviated as WMF, is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California and registered as a charitable foundation under local laws. Best kno ...
, a wiki project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation
See also
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Incubation (disambiguation)
The word incubation may refer to:
Science and technology
* Egg incubation, sitting on or brooding the eggs of birds and other egg-laying animals to hatch them
* Incubation (psychology), the process of thinking about a problem subconsciously whi ...
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