Look up: entrainment

1. Entrainment
   (Battery) The process whereby gasses generated in the cell carry electrolyte through the vent cap.
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2. Entrainment
   The process of being captured in cooling water of a power plant. This usually applied to small organisms such as fish larvae and zooplankton.
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3. entrainment
   mixing of environmental air into a cloud,or air current usually considered to be moving vertically Category: The cosmos
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4. Entrainment
   One of three distinct processes involved in erosion. More specifically, it is the process of particle lifting by an agent of erosion.
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5. Entrainment
   (physics) :See entrainment for other types. `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 commo...
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6. Entrainment
   (hydrodynamics) :See entrainment for other types. `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 co...
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7. 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. Entrainment is t...
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8. Entrainment
   (engineering) :See entrainment for other types. `Entrainment` as commonly used in various branches of title=Perry`s Chemical Engineers` Handbook|edition=Sixth Edition|publisher=McGraw-Hill|year=1984|isbn=0-07-049479-7-->--> For example: See also: References:
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9. 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 ...
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10. Entrainment
    (physical geography) In physical geography, `entrainment` is the process by which surface sediment is incorporated into a fluid flow (such as air or water) as part of the operation of erosion. References : <references/>
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11. 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. Examples include firefly flashing, mosquito wing clapping as well as human music and dance such a...
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