Incubator

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

 * "Incubator" (Farscape episode), a 2001 episode of the American TV series
 * "Incubator", a song by the Israeli rock band, HaClique, in their 1981 album, Ima Ani Lo Rotze Lehigamel
 * Incubator, Kyubey's true identity in the anime TV series Puella Magi Madoka Magica

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