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incubation - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'incubation' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Incubation [ n.]
- A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process.
- The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
- A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.