entrainment
English
Etymology
entrain + -ment
Noun
entrainment (plural entrainments)
- 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.
- (biology) The alignment of an organism's circadian rhythm to an external rhythm in its environment
Translations
mixing of fluids
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