Incubator vs Hotbed - What's the difference?
incubator | hotbed |
(chemistry) Any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.
(medicine) An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby.
An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs.
A place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature.
(business) A support programme for the development of entrepreneurial companies.
* 2006 , Philip N. Cooke, Creative Industries in Wales: Potential and Pitfalls (page 34)
a low bed of earth covered with glass, and heated with rotting manure; used for the germination of seeds and the growth of tender plants. A hotbed works as a miniature hothouse, i.e. greenhouse.
(by extension) an environment that is ideal for the growth or development of something, especially of something undesirable
An iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool.
As nouns the difference between incubator and hotbed
is that incubator is (chemistry) any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction while hotbed is a low bed of earth covered with glass, and heated with rotting manure; used for the germination of seeds and the growth of tender plants a hotbed works as a miniature hothouse, ie greenhouse.incubator
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(en noun)- 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.