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countable and uncountable, plural gestations
The period of time during which an animal or human offspring physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born. examples
The process of development of a plan or idea. quotations examples
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.
1900, Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey, The Interpretation of Dreams: Avon Books, page 149