Dictionary Entry
incubation
incubation is a 10-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 19 · 6 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
- 3noun
A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.
- 4noun
maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development
- 5noun
sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
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- 6noun
(pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear
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