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Entrainment
noun
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Noun
- 1 Enthusiasm, liveliness; impulsiveness. archaic, countable, uncountable
"Carlo Antonio Bertinazzi, he whom the French stage knows under the name of Carlin, was the gayest of all comedians; he knew a thousand ways of amusing his audience, and would make them die with pleasure and laughter by his affecting performance of the Vingt-six infortunes d’ Arlequin; the entrainment of his gaiety and bonhomie were everywhere extolled."
- 2 The act of someone or something boarding or being put aboard a train. countable, uncountable
"An experienced officer will be placed in charge at each station which is to be used for the entrainment of volunteers near Windsor and at the Waterloo and Paddington Termini in London."
- 3 Any of several processes in which a solid or liquid is put into motion by a fluid.; The carrying away of droplets of liquid during violent boiling. countable, uncountable
- 4 Any of several processes in which a solid or liquid is put into motion by a fluid.; The movement of sediment in a stream of water or in a glacier. countable, uncountable
- 5 Any of several processes in which a solid or liquid is put into motion by a fluid.; The mixing of air currents. countable, uncountable
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- 6 Any of several processes in which a solid or liquid is put into motion by a fluid.; The mixing of out flowing river water and underlying seawater. countable, uncountable
- 7 The alignment of an organism's circadian rhythm to an external rhythm in its environment. countable, uncountable
Etymology
Etymology 1
Partly from French entraînement and partly entrain + -ment.
Etymology 2
From entrain (“to board or put aboard a train”) + -ment.
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