English-Portuguese translations for incubation

• incubação
  Não fazemos ideia da duração do período de incubação.We have no idea how long the incubation period is.
  Pouco sabemos acerca do período de incubação.We know little about the incubation time.
  Segundo os estudiosos, os períodos de incubação das doenças variam entre os vinte e os 50 anos. Periods of incubation vary, according to the academics, from 20 to 50 years.

Definition of incubation

• Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process
• A period of little reaction which is followed by more rapid reaction
• Sleeping in a temple or other holy place in order to have oracular dreams or to receive healing

Related words

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