1 [U,sing.] the time that the young of a person or an animal develops inside its mother's body until it is born; the process of developing inside the mother's body:
a baby born at 38 weeks' gestation * The gestation period of a horse is about eleven months. * Gestation lasts about nine months.
2 [U] (formal) the process by which an idea or a plan develops:
His book was nearly twenty years in gestation.
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