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1) A machine in a hospital that keeps a baby — especially one born early — warm and safe while it grows stronger. 2) A machine that keeps eggs warm so they hatch. 3) In business, a program or company that supports new, small businesses in their early, fragile stage, giving them space, advice, or money to grow.
(醫院)保溫箱; (孵蛋用)孵卵器; (商業)企業孵化器
組成incubate (to keep something warm so it can grow or develop) + -or (a thing that does an action)
同家族的字
- incubatethe base verb this comes from
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
incubatornoun/ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.tə(ɹ)/
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chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesAny apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.
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medicinesciencesAn apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby.
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An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs.
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A place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature.
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businessA support programme for the development of entrepreneurial companies.
- So the question that is commonly asked is, why put a media incubator in a media desert and have it managed by a civil servant? This gets to the heart of the institutional support problem in Wales.
- Tech City is very big on "incubators" – places where startups are supposed to grow out of a collection of adjacent desks in a huge barracks of other adjacent desks – and on luring big firms to the East End of London.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。