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An incubator is anything that performs or facilitates various forms of incubation, and may refer to:
Biology and medicine
Incubator (culture) , a device used to grow and maintain microbiological cultures or cell cultures
Incubator (egg) , a device for maintaining the eggs of birds or reptiles to allow them to hatch
Incubator (neonatal) , a device used to care for premature babies in a neonatal intensive-care unit
Arts and entertainment
Other uses
Business incubator , a company that helps new and startup companies to develop by providing services such as management training or office space
Apache Incubator, a gateway for open source projects under the Apache Software Foundation
Wikimedia Incubator , a wiki project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation
See also
Topics referred to by the same term