incubator

noun5

1. •
   Any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.
2. •
   An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby.
3. •
   An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs.
4. •
   A place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature.
5. •
   A 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. — 2006