Entrainment
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Entrainment may refer to:
- Air entrainmentAir entrainment-Air entrainment in concrete:Air entrainment is the intentional creation of tiny air bubbles in concrete. The bubbles are introduced into the concrete by the addition to the mix of an air entraining agent, a surfactant...
, the intentional creation of tiny air bubbles in concrete - Brainwave entrainment, the practice of entraining one's brainwaves to a desired frequency
- Entrainment (biomusicology)Entrainment (biomusicology)Entrainment in the biomusicological sense refers to the synchronization of organisms to an external rhythm, usually produced by other organisms with whom they interact socially...
, the synchronization of organisms to an external rhythm - Entrainment (chronobiology)Entrainment (chronobiology)Entrainment, within the study of chronobiology, occurs when rhythmic physiological or behavioral events match their period and phase to that of an environmental oscillation. A common example is the entrainment of circadian rhythms to the daily light–dark cycle, which ultimately is determined by...
, the alignment of a circadian system's period and phase to the period and phase of an external rhythm - Entrainment (engineering)Entrainment (engineering)Entrainment as commonly used in various branches of engineering may be defined as the entrapment of one substance by another substance. For example:* The entrapment of liquid droplets or solid particulates in a flowing gas, as with smoke....
, the entrapment of one substance by another substance - Entrainment (hydrodynamics)Entrainment (hydrodynamics)Entrainment is the movement of one fluid by another.One fluid moving in another can push or pull the other along with it. Eductors or eductor-jet pumps are an excellent example. They are used onboard many ships to pump flooded out compartments in the event of an accident. Seawater is pumped to...
, the movement of one fluid by another - Entrainment (meteorology)Entrainment (meteorology)Entrainment is a phenomenon of the atmosphere which occurs when a turbulent flow captures a non-turbulent flow. It is typically used to refer to the capture of a wind flow of high moisture content, or in the case of tropical cyclones, the capture of drier air....
, a phenomenon of the atmosphere - Entrainment (physical geography)Entrainment (physical geography)In physical geography, entrainment is the process by which surface sediment is incorporated into a fluid flow as part of the operation of erosion....
, the process by which surface sediment is incorporated into a fluid flow - Entrainment (physics)Entrainment (physics)Entrainment has been used to refer to the process of mode locking of coupled driven oscillators, which is the process whereby two interacting oscillating systems, which have different periods when they function independently, assume a common period...
, the process whereby two interacting oscillating systems assume the same period