Incubator vs Thermostat - What's the difference?
incubator | thermostat |
(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 device that automatically responds to changes in temperature by activating a heating or cooling system to maintain the temperature at a desired setting
As nouns the difference between incubator and thermostat
is that incubator is (chemistry) any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction while thermostat is thermostat.incubator
English
Noun
(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.