Incubation

(noun.) maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development.

(noun.) (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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• Aristotle traced with some care the embryological develo pment of the chick from the fourth day of incubation. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Once each year my mother visited it for the five long years it lay there in the process of incubation. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Coming from eggs in which they have lain for five years, the period of incubation, they step forth into the world perfectly developed except in size. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.

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