incubation period

1. 1.

   the period between infection and the appearance of symptoms of the disease

   Broadertime period

Questions about incubation period

What does incubation period mean?

incubation period means "the period between infection and the appearance of symptoms of the disease".

Is incubation period a common word?

incubation period is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.