"In vitro" is a phrase used to denote something which has been
developed or tested in a lab/petry dish, rather than in it's normal
environment. For example, in vitro fertilization (IVF) involves
fertilizing the egg with the sperm in a petry dish, then implanting
the fertilized egg back into the women's uterus.
One of the most important things to know about things tested or
developed "in vitro" is that many things which occur in petry dish
or lab circumstances do not work in the same way when tested out
under "in vivo" conditions (the conditions the reaction would
normally occur in - ie. non lab conditions).
In vitro meat is meat which has been grown in a lab (in a petry
dish - not on an animal). It is still a very experimental process,
however it has been shown to work.