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What does entrainment mean?

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Noun
  1. Any of several processes in which a solid or liquid is put into motion by a fluid.
    1. The carrying away of droplets of liquid during violent boiling
    2. The movement of sediment in a stream of water or in a glacier
    3. The mixing of air currents
    4. The mixing of out flowing river water and underlying seawater.
  2. (biology) The alignment of an organism's circadian rhythm to an external rhythm in its environment
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In 1990, a study on fish entrainment was conducted at Robert-Bourassa generating station.
Literature provides means to estimate the relative hardiness of different types of fish and invertebrates to mortality from entrainment.
To characterize this photic entrainment we examined frq expression in constant light, under which condition the mRNA and protein of this clock gene were strongly induced.
Extruded and laminated geomembranes are to be installed on freshly disturbed soil to reduce the potential entrainment of soil particles.
Circadian entrainment is one of the areas of biology where mathematical predictions have been tested experimentally and confirmed.
The very thing that enables expertise to develop, namely the codification of expert language, leads inevitably to entrainment of thinking.

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