When birds incubate their eggs, they keep the eggs warm until the baby birds come out. The birds returned to their nests and continued to incubate the eggs. + incubation in·cu·ba·tion Male albatrosses share in the incubation of eggs
When a germ in your body incubates or is incubated, it develops for a period of time before it starts making you feel ill. The virus can incubate for up to ten days after the initial infection. + incubation in·cu·ba·tion The illness has an incubation period of up to 11 days
To keep eggs warm so that their embryos develop and hatch The adult birds incubate the eggs by sitting on them They also turn the eggs with their beaks from time to time
to warm (eggs) as by bodily heat, so as to promote embryonic developmment and the hatching of young
To incubate is to artificially warm (and hatch eggs) by maintaining conditions similar to body heat
To maintain eggs, sperm or embryos under controlled conditions (temperature, humidity and gaseous environment) favorable for development
{f} sit on eggs in order to hatch them; hatch eggs; keep warm to promote development and growth; develop, grow, mature; (in Canada and the USA) support and assist a new development of small business
In context here, to allow a starter to sit in conditions which favor the growth of its microorganisms
To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preperation for hatching it