incubation

n 1: maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for

its development

2: sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the

body [syn: {brooding}]

incantation

Any particularly arbitrary or obscure command that one must

mutter at a system to attain a desired result. Not used of

passwords or other explicit security features. Especially

used of tricks that are so poorly documented that they must be

learned from a {wizard}. "This compiler normally locates

initialised data in the data segment, but if you {mutter} the

right incantation they will be forced into text space."