Definition of "gestation" []

• The period of development in the uterus from conception until birth; pregnancy. (noun)
• The conception and development of a plan or an idea in the mind. (noun)

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• "This blog posting does not only link both to Frank's article in the Philadelphia Inquirer and to the comments facility the paper has set up, but also lists/links to all the previous Books, Inq. postings leading up to the article, so the gestation is archived in one place for any interested reader to track."
• "MCCREADY: Well, during the first one the baby was still in I guess what they call gestation, so the doctor described it as it being an all or nothing effect that if the suicide attempt did have any effect on the child I would have lost the baby but I didn't."
• "This edition of Frankenstein, in gestation for over fifteen years, provides the texts of both the"