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Meanings of incubation in English

Portuguese
incubação

Sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body.

incubação
Synonyms
Examples for "brooding"
Examples for "brooding"
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Moreover, every brooding male is out of action for over seven weeks.
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
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The potential connection Heat had been brooding over could wait no longer.
Frozen Heat
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Just short of his middle years, handsome in a brooding, rugged fashion.
Wheel of Time [08]: The Path of Daggers
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Students can become brooding pessimists at this late stage in the process.
The Irish Times
5
On the sidewalk she heard the brooding scuff of heavy work boots.
The double bind
Usage of incubation in English
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The incubation period can range from a few days to 14 days.
News.com.au
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In the second week of incubation a decrease of coexpression is observed.
Pubmed
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We also investigated a possible interconversion of guanine-based purines during incubation time.
Pubmed
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When incubation was prolonged a free precipitate was seen in the medium.
Pubmed
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The experimental genetic stock was bred under natural mating and natural incubation.
Pubmed
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The incubation period is probably a week, Murphy told reporters in Canberra.
Reuters
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A recovery was reached after 7 days of in vivo metal incubation.
Pubmed
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CO-SG was quantified in the incubation solutions using the synthesised standard substance.
Pubmed
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The new incubator has already picked up mobile app SyncUsUp for incubation.
Reuters
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Five days' incubation with acyclic retinoid effected a dose-dependent induction of differentiation.
Pubmed
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He likened the conditions for incubation to those on a cruise ship.
The Guardian
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The quarantine period should be longer than the average period of incubation.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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Prior incubation of the cells with PtdIns-PLC significantly reduced the surface staining.
Pubmed
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Aortic dilatation was induced by intraluminal incubation with elastase on day 35.
Pubmed
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The scaffold was then mineralized via incubation in a simulated body fluid.
Pubmed
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The incubation period of scarlet fever is from one to seven days.
The Mother and Her Child
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Translations for incubation
Portuguese
incubação
Incubation through the time
Incubation across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Rare