Disentrain
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To disembark from a train.
"French trains of all kinds travelled faster than German ones, this being made possible - in the case of troop transports - by an arrangement which required the men to take their provisions along, instead of having them disentrain in order to be fed at the stations."
- 2 To precipitate out of a flowing current.
"In certain cases, it is possible to entrain enough of the solids continually in the effluent gas stream and then to disentrain them again away from the bed."
- 3 To disrupt an organism's circadian rhythm so that it is not aligned with its environment.
"Since different rhythms appear to have different ranges of entrainment, what happens is that as the period of the light-dark cycle is stretched, rhythms disentrain, but not all at once."
- 4 To disrupt a body's homeostatic patterns. broadly
"Because dexamethasone and naloxone successfully reduce body weight, blood lipid and glucose levels, and blood pressure in Obese/SHR (to be published), the question arose whether prevention of corpulency by daily exercise would also disentrain the genetically programmed obesity and hypertension."
- 5 To extinguish a conditioned association.
"We have seen that consciousness can be viewed as an integration of neural functions, which are entrained and disentrained from moment to moment."
Example
More examples"French trains of all kinds travelled faster than German ones, this being made possible - in the case of troop transports - by an arrangement which required the men to take their provisions along, instead of having them disentrain in order to be fed at the stations."
Etymology
From dis- + entrain.
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