entrainment noun8 •The alignment of an organism's circadian rhythm to an external rhythm in its environment. •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. •The movement of sediment in a stream of water or in a glacier. •The mixing of air currents. •The mixing of out flowing river water and underlying seawater. •The act of someone or something boarding or being put aboard a train.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. — 1881 •(no longer used) Enthusiasm, liveliness; impulsiveness.At page 60, and elsewhere, the English general is only spoken of as a mere nobody, carried away resistlessly by the “entrainments” [translating entraînements] around him. — 1863 formsentrainments
