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Incense route
The incense route, also known as the Frankincense route, was the caravan network that carried frankincense and myrrh from South Arabia through Petra to the Mediterranean.
Incense Route - Desert Cities in the Negev
Incense Route - Desert Cities in the Negev: UNESCO World Heritage Site (2005, criteria iii and v) in southern Israel, covering the Nabatean towns Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat, and Shivta with fortresses and caravanserai along the Petra-to-Mediterranean frankincense route.
Incentive
In economics, an incentive is a reward or punishment, positive or negative, that motivates an agent to take up an activity and guides how they perform it.
Incentive compatibility
Incentive compatibility is a property of a mechanism under which truthful reporting is an equilibrium, introduced by Leonid Hurwicz in 1972 and central to mechanism design.
Incentive spirometry
Incentive spirometry is a breathing therapy in which patients take slow, sustained maximal breaths through a handheld feedback device to expand the lungs and prevent atelectasis, chiefly after surgery.
Incentives for Olympic medalists by country
Country-by-country incentives for Olympic medalists: cash bonuses (Hong Kong HK$6M, Singapore S$1M, US $37,500), pensions, cars, apartments, and the first federation prize money from World Athletics in 2024.
Inception
Inception is a 2010 science-fiction heist film written, directed, and produced by Christopher Nolan, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a dream thief, which earned over $826 million worldwide and won four Academy Awards.
Inception network
The Inception network is a family of convolutional neural network architectures for image classification, introduced in 2014; its GoogLeNet version won ILSVRC 2014 by running filters of several sizes in parallel.
Inception score
The Inception score (IS) is a metric for evaluating generative image models, measuring the confidence and diversity of a pretrained Inception classifier's predictions on generated images.
Inceptisols
Inceptisols are a major order of USDA Soil Taxonomy: weakly to moderately weathered soils covering about 17 percent of global ice-free land, more than any other soil order.
Incest
Incest is sexual activity or marriage between close relatives within prohibited degrees of consanguinity. Covers the near-universal incest taboo, Westermarck and inbreeding explanations, genetic risks, comparative criminal law, and family-member sexual abuse statistics.
Incest between twins
Incest between twins: sexual activity or marriage between co-twin siblings, treated under general sibling incest law. Covers Balinese and Zulu twin beliefs, the Westermarck effect, the 2008 co-twin marriage case, genetic risks, and legal status.
Incest in ancient Egypt
Incest in ancient Egypt covers royal sibling marriage across pharaonic history and the distinctive commoner brother-sister marriage documented in Roman Egypt census returns, reaching inbreeding coefficients several times higher than any other recorded population.
Incest in media
Incest in media: depiction of sexual or romantic family relationships in film, TV, and literature; shaped by Hollywood Production Code censorship, 1970s television social-issue movies, Brookside, Twin Peaks, Game of Thrones, and the 2025 White Lotus storyline.
Incest in the Bible
Incest in the Bible covers the prohibited-relationship lists of Leviticus 18 and 20 and Deuteronomy 27, narratives of Lot's daughters, Judah and Tamar, and Amnon and Tamar, ancient Near Eastern parallels, and the Qur'anic reception in Q 4:22–23.
Incest pornography
Incest pornography depicts or purports to depict sex between relatives, mostly unrelated adult performers playing family roles. The UK criminalised its possession and publication under the Crime and Policing Act 2026; major platforms prohibit it, though step-relative content remains popular.
Incest taboo
Incest taboo is a cultural rule prohibiting sexual relations or marriage between close relatives. It exists in every human society, though its scope varies widely.
Incesticide
Incesticide is Nirvana's 1992 compilation of B-sides, BBC sessions, demos and outtakes recorded 1988–1991, released December 14–15, 1992 by Sub Pop and Geffen; 15 tracks, six previously unreleased, three covers, UK peak No. 14, platinum.
Inch
The inch, also called the US or Imperial inch, is a unit of length defined since 1959 as exactly 25.4 millimeters, one twelfth of a foot.
Inchcape
Inchcape plc is a London-headquartered, London-listed global automotive distributor with about 230 distribution contracts across some 40 markets, managing logistics, marketing, dealer networks, and financing for vehicle brands.
Incheon (인천)
Incheon (인천), a South Korean metropolitan city of about 3 million on the Yellow Sea west of Seoul; formerly Michuhol and Jemulpo, port opened 1883, metropolitan city status 1995, home to the Incheon Free Economic Zone and Incheon International Airport.
Incheon Bridge
The Incheon Bridge (인천대교) is a 21.38 km toll crossing in Incheon, South Korea, linking Songdo International Business District with Yeongjongdo Island, home of Incheon International Airport, opened in 2009.
Incheon International Airport (인천국제공항)
Incheon International Airport (인천국제공항), also known as ICN Airport, is South Korea's largest international airport, opened in 2001 near Seoul and ranked the world's best for 12 years.
Incheon LNG Combined Cycle Power Plant
The Incheon LNG Combined Cycle Power Plant is a 3,412 MW liquefied natural gas-fired station in Seo-gu, Incheon, South Korea, operated by POSCO International as Korea's first private power generator.
Incheon LNG Terminal
The Incheon LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas receiving and regasification terminal in South Korea, opened by KOGAS in 1996 on a reclaimed island about 8 kilometers off Incheon.
InChI
InChI, or International Chemical Identifier, is a non-proprietary, machine-readable string that uniquely represents a chemical substance, developed under IUPAC at NIST between 2000 and 2004.
InChIKey
InChIKey is a fixed-length, 27-character hashed form of the InChI, a text representation of a molecule's structure, introduced in 2009 to make chemical information easy to index and search.
Inchoate offense
Inchoate offense: also called inchoate crime or unfinished crime, a criminal offense punishing conduct before a target crime is completed, chiefly attempt, conspiracy, and solicitation, with renunciation defenses and double inchoate extensions in some jurisdictions.
Inchtuthil
Inchtuthil, near Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross, is Scotland's only Roman legionary fortress, begun under Agricola around AD 82-84 for Legio XX and abandoned unfinished by about AD 87, famous for its buried hoard of roughly 875,000 iron nails.
Inchworm actuator
The inchworm actuator is a stepping linear or rotary motor mimicking the inchworm caterpillar, with two clamping units and a central driving unit that combine millimeter travel with nano-scale resolution.