Entrainment

Entrainment

Entrainment may refer to:

* Air entrainment, the intentional creation of tiny air bubbles in concrete
* Brainwave entrainment, the practice of entraining one's brainwaves to a desired frequency
* Entrainment (biomusicology), the synchronization of organisms to an external rhythm
* Entrainment (chronobiology), the alignment of a circadian system's period and phase to the period and phase of an external rhythm
* Entrainment (engineering), the entrapment of one substance by another substance
* Entrainment (hydrodynamics), the movement of one fluid by another
* Entrainment (meteorology), a phenomenon of the atmosphere
* Entrainment (physical geography), the process by which surface sediment is incorporated into a fluid flow
* Entrainment (physics), the process whereby two interacting oscillating systems assume the same period
*, the title of a Van Morrison song


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