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incubator

/in-kyuh-bey-ter, ing-/US // ˈɪn kyəˌbeɪ tər, ˈɪŋ- //UK // (ˈɪnkjʊˌbeɪtə) //

孵化器,孵化机,孵化场,孵化园

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
    • : an enclosed apparatus in which prematurely born infants are kept in controlled conditions, as of temperature, for protection and care.
    • : an apparatus in which media inoculated with microorganisms are cultivated at a constant temperature.
    • : a person or thing that incubates.
    • : Business. an enterprise that provides support services to entrepreneurs refining startup concepts, in a continuing and open-ended relationship that includes access to mentoring, networking, or legal assistance, often in a collaborative workspace.Compare accelerator.

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Examples

  • Xue had left a failed experiment, a dish full of human tumor cells, in the incubator, and when he looked two weeks later, he found a dish full of neurons.

  • That’s exactly what Ocean Spray is doing with the incubator which has just five employees dedicated full-time to it.

  • With each new brand idea, the incubator is running market tests, analyzing the success of those tests and then deciding whether or not to proceed with the brand.

  • It’s like a comet incubator, says planetary scientist Gal Sarid of the SETI Institute, who is based in Rockville, Md.

  • Live on air, she said the Iraqis had removed 312 babies from incubators and left them to die on the cold floor.

  • As we talked I looked at three babies, their skin a jaundiced yellow, in a single incubator.

  • America has long been the incubator of many spiritual creeds going back to the Great Awakening and even earlier.

  • He now works for the mayor of New York running their incubator for tech companies.

  • Now five guys who program can pitch their company and get $100,000 from an incubator.

  • It launched in February an incubator to foster education start-ups.

  • Where electric current is available, it can be used to heat an incubator much better and cleanlier than the kerosene lamp.

  • The most important part of the incubator is the thermostat which regulates the current to maintain a steady heat.

  • The incubator should be run for a day or two so that the current may be well regulated before placing the eggs in the tray.

  • An incubator about hatching time is a wonderful object lesson in teaching the story of life.

  • And this, too, when it has been unreservedly believed that the incubator was a modern triumph of Western science!