Noun

• S: (n) incubation (maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development)
• S: (n) incubation ((pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear)
• S: (n) brooding, incubation (sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing (the process of giving birth)
• derivationally related form