different between incubator vs accelerator

English

Etymology

From incubate +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n.kju??be?.t?(?)/
• Rhymes: -e?t?(?)

Noun

incubator (plural incubators)

1. (chemistry) Any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.
2. (medicine) 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. (business) A support programme for the development of entrepreneurial companies.
   • 2006, Philip N. Cooke, Creative Industries in Wales: Potential and Pitfalls (page 34)

     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.

Synonyms

• (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby): brooder
• (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs): brooder

Related terms

• incubate
• incubation
• incubative

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French incubateur.

Noun

incubator n (plural incubatoare)

1. incubator

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English

Etymology

• First attested in 1611.
• (motor vehicle): First attested in 1900.
• accelerate +? -or

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æk.?s?l.?.??e?.t?/, /æk.?s?l.?.??e?t.?/, /?k.?s?l.?.??e?t.?/

Noun

accelerator (plural accelerators)

1. One who, or that which, accelerates.

2. A device for causing acceleration.
3. (chemistry) A substance which speeds up chemical reactions.
4. (vehicles) A pedal causing the vehicle to accelerate when it is pressed.

5. (photography) A chemical that reduces development time.
6. (physics) A device that accelerates charged subatomic particles.
7. (physiology, medicine) A muscle or nerve that speeds the performance of an action.
8. (computing) An accelerator key.
9. (computing) A computer component using dedicated hardware to accelerate the processing and display of graphics.
10. (historical) A light van to take mails between a post office and a railway station.

Synonyms

(accelerator pedal):

• (North America) gas pedal, gas
• throttle
• go pedal

(accelerates subatomic particles):

• particle accelerator
• atom smasher

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• retrocaecal

Latin

Verb

acceler?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of acceler?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of acceler?

Romanian

Etymology

From French accélérateur

Adjective

accelerator m or n (feminine singular acceleratoare, masculine plural acceleratori, feminine and neuter plural acceleratoare)

1. accelerative

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Swedish

Noun

accelerator c

1. (chemistry) accelerator; a substance which speeds up chemical reactions.
2. (physics) accelerator; a device which accelerates different kinds of particles to large velocities

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