Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of entraining; specifically, the catching up and conveying away by live steam of minute drops of water from a boiler or of particles of sugar from an evaporating-pan or other vessel from which steam is exhausted.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of several processes in which a solid or liquid is put into motion by a fluid.
- n. The carrying away of droplets of liquid during violent boiling
- n. The movement of sediment in a stream of water or in a glacier
- n. The mixing of air currents
- n. The mixing of out flowing river water and underlying seawater.
- n. The alignment of an organism's circadian rhythm to that of an external rhythm in its environment
Examples
“One possible reason for the similarities of sound patterns throughout the universe may be due to the principle called entrainment, the ability of one vibration to affect another.”
“The brain's synchronization process is called entrainment, and it is exactly what the brain machines aim to produce.”
“By a process called entrainment, it can reliably put you into a calming meditative state without effort on your part.”
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“The trance session parts of the hypnocasts are intended to be listened to in stereo usually with headphones as each ear has a different frequency being played into it in the background which theoretically aids what is known as an "entrainment" effect that helps to lead a person into deeper trance.”
“Once "entrainment" occurs, he said, the oil would be pulled quickly south along Florida's”
“The shortcut may be setting yourself up for a trance by entrainment with a metronome-like pitter-patter of a tom-tom drum.”
““All kinds of violent confrontations have the same basic tension … called non-solidarity entrainment.””
“In this way, circumcision functions as a primary and potent entrainment for group bonding.”
The Huffington Post: Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power
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rolig Dangerously the summer burned
(I had joined the entrainments of the wind).
The shadows of boulders lengthened my back:
In the bronze gongs of my cheeks
The rain dried without odour.
— Hart Crane, "Passage" Apr 19, 2008