Incubation vs. Hatching — What's the Difference?

The act of incubating.

Hatching (hachure in French) is an artistic technique used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing (or painting or scribing) closely spaced parallel lines. (It is also used in monochromatic heraldic representations to indicate what the tincture of a "full-colour" emblazon would be.) When lines are placed at an angle to one another, it is called cross-hatching.

The state of being incubated.

Fine lines used in graphic arts to show shading.

(Medicine) The development of an infection from the time the pathogen enters the body until signs or symptoms first appear.

The process of decorating with such lines.

(Medicine) The maintenance of an infant, especially a premature infant, in an environment of controlled temperature, humidity, and oxygen concentration in order to provide optimal conditions for growth and development.

A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.

Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.

A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.

(pathology) The development of a disease from its causes, or the period of such development.

The act of an egg hatching, eclosion

(chemistry) A period of little reaction which is followed by more rapid reaction.

Patterns used in construction drawings to represent various materials.

(psychology) One of the four proposed stages of creativity (preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification): the unconscious recombination of thought elements that were stimulated through conscious work at one point in time, resulting in novel ideas at a later point.

Present participle of hatch

Sleeping in a temple or other holy place in order to have oracular dreams or to receive healing.

A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; - called also crosshatching.

A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process.

The production of young from an egg

The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.

Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines

A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.

The maintenance (of a living organism, such as microorganisms or a premature baby) in appropriate conditions, such as of temperature, humidity, or atmospheric composition, for growth.

The gradual development in some interior environment, until fully formed; as, the incubation time for developing a new drug may be longer than ten years from its first discovery.

Maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development

(pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear

Sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body