Definitions from Wiktionary (incubation)

▸ noun:  Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.
▸ noun:  (pathology) The development of a disease from its causes, or the period of such development.
▸ noun:  (chemistry) A period of little reaction which is followed by more rapid reaction.
▸ noun:  (psychology) One of the four proposed stages of creativity (preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification): the unconscious recombination of thought elements that were stimulated through conscious work at one point in time, resulting in novel ideas at a later point.
▸ noun:  Sleeping in a temple or other holy place in order to have oracular dreams or to receive healing.

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