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incubator

[ US /ˈɪŋkjəˌbeɪtɝ/ ]
[ UK /ˈɪnkjuːbˌe‍ɪtɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants

How To Use incubator In A Sentence

  • Now, just look at that," I said as I opened the top of the long box that is called a brooder and is supposed to supplement the functions of the metal incubator mother in the destiny of chicken young. The Golden Bird
  • All birds were hatched in incubators and kept in brooders until approximately 7 weeks of age, at which time they were moved to 5 x 7 x 4 m outdoor flight pens.
  • Start a school of robotics and a business incubator to go with it, to not only train a cadre of technology workers, but to sell the intellectual property and create the seeds of a home grown tech industry.
  • Heinroth, a German zoolo - gist and ethologist, read a paper in 1910 in which he described the behavior of incubator-hatched graylag goslings (“Beiträge zur Biologie, nahmentlich Ethologie und Psychologie der Anatiden,” Verh. 5 int. orn. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • For caving -- not compromising, but totally capitulating -- on war funding and and telecom immunity, Nancy Pelosi, Stenny Hoyer and the blue dogs they lie down with have been rewarded with the same herpetic embrace that is turning John McCain into a Republican cootie incubator. Marty Kaplan: Bush Gives Dems STDs
  • Across the country, business incubators and accelerators reflect the needs and wants of their respective communities.
  • After our ultimately disastrous first attempt at using our incubator this is just the ticket.
  • Flies were raised on standard corn-meal-molasses-agar medium and grown in an incubator at 25°.
  • Objective to verify the function of the ourselves - made incubator for premature infant.
  • A good hatch from a small incubator is indicated when 70 percent or more of the eggs hatch, and the chicks are active and fluffy.
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