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# incubation

«incubation» in Mova's school dictionary: **keeping eggs warm so they can develop and hatch** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (incubation — uncountable; an incubation period)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Incubation is keeping eggs warm so they can develop and hatch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incubation/#m1)

2) (medicine) The incubation period is the time between catching an illness and showing the first signs of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incubation/#m2)

3) Incubation is keeping something, like bacteria or a new business idea, in the right conditions so it can grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incubation/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons classes watch chick eggs in an incubator during incubation, about 21 days for chickens. In health lessons, chickenpox has an incubation period of about two weeks, so you can spread it before you feel ill. Phrases: «incubation period», «during incubation», «the incubation of eggs».

### examples

- Chicken eggs need about 21 days of incubation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incubation/#x1)
- During incubation the hen turns her eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incubation/#x2)
- Chickenpox has an incubation period of 10 to 21 days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incubation/#x3)
- The bacteria were kept at body temperature for incubation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incubation/#x4)
- We checked the eggs every morning during incubation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incubation/#x5)
- Penguin fathers do the incubation in some species. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incubation/#x6)

### note

Noun from «incubate». Uncountable in most uses. In maths problems: if incubation takes 21 days and starts on 1 March, the chicks hatch around 22 March (count the days carefully).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «incubation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incubation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.