entrainments

Noun

entrainment (countable and uncountable, plural entrainments)

1. (archaic) Enthusiasm, liveliness; impulsiveness.
   • 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...1841 May 26, “Hay-Market Theatre”, in The Theatrical Observer; and Daily Bills of the Play, number 6060, London: E[dward] & J[ohn] Thomas, […], →OCLC, front page
2. The carrying away of droplets of liquid during violent boiling.
3. The movement of sediment in a stream of water or in a glacier.
4. The mixing of air currents.
5. The mixing of out flowing river water and underlying seawater.
6. The alignment of an organism's circadian rhythm to an external rhythm in its environment.

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