What is the meaning of incubation?

noun

  • Maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development.
  • Pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear. (
  • Sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body.
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