Disentrainment
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act or process of falling out of entrainment; precipitation form a flow or current.
"Subsequent disentrainment relies upon opportunities for gravity separation that occur in the normal course of processing, but particles which disentrain too slowly and can not be filtered remain in suspension to the possible detriment of product quality."
- 2 The disruption of patterns of brain activity.
"We might imagine a wave of activity, or reentrainent, among the cells making up a model, an activity having a beginning, a series of transformative phases (discrete entrainments, disentrainments, and reentrainments), and an ending."
- 3 Disruption of the natural alignment of circadian rhythms with the natural environment
"In contrast, during disentrainment mean REM period duration remained essentially constant across all REM periods recorded during nocturnal sleep episodes"
Example
More examples"Subsequent disentrainment relies upon opportunities for gravity separation that occur in the normal course of processing, but particles which disentrain too slowly and can not be filtered remain in suspension to the possible detriment of product quality."
Etymology
From disentrain + -ment.
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