gestation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the period during which an embryo develops, about 266 days in humans

   The gestation is progressing normally.

2. 2
   noun

   The process of development of a plan or idea.

   It was to a conversation with another friend who had for many years been familiar with all my writings during the period of their gestation, just as I had been with his.

Learned borrowing from Latin gestātiō.

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