Entrainment
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Entrainment is a noun meaning (now rare) Enthusiasm, liveliness; impulsiveness.
Meaning
(now rare) Enthusiasm, liveliness; impulsiveness.
More Meanings
- Any of several processes in which a solid or liquid is put into motion by a fluid.
- (biology) The alignment of an organism's circadian rhythm to an external rhythm in its environment.
- The act of someone or something boarding or being put aboard a train.
Example Sentences
For Longinus, it is the rhetor’s public capacity to bring out the whole audience’s entrainment to sublimity that is most important.
The experimental line at Chatham is invaluable in practising entrainments, so that the work shall be performed in the shortest possible time.
The reviewer had to recognize [Thomas Babington] Macaulay’s talents; the entrainment of his picturesque, vivid, and pregnant execution could not be escaped.
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.
Word Forms
- entrainments
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cranking, ripple, spillover, train, workout, spinoff.
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