incubation

incubation has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
• n.. A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.
• n.. maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development
• n.. sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
• n.. (pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear