Incubation

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The word incubation (from the Latin incubare, "to lie upon") may refer to:

• Avian incubation, sitting on or brooding bird's eggs in order to hatch them
• Incubation period, a medical term for the time between being exposed to infection and showing first symptoms
• Business incubator, for startup businesses
• Incubation (psychology), the process of thinking about a problem subconsciously while being involved in other activities
• Incubation (ritual), the religious practice of sleeping in a sacred area with the intention of experiencing a divinely-inspired dream or cure
• Incubator (microbiology), a process for maintaining a bacterial culture at a particular temperature for a set length of time, in order to measure bacterial growth
• Incubation: Time Is Running Out, a 1997 computer game
• "Incubator", a 2001 episode of the American TV series Farscape
• Incubation for newborn infants, such as in a Neonatal intensive care unit
• "Incubation", a song released on the B-side of the Komakino flexi-single in 1980, and on the Substance (Joy Division album) in 1988
• Software incubation: software and community verification phase as done in the Apache Software Foundation and OSGeo Foundation

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