Entrainment vs Entrainable - What's the difference?
entrainment | entrainable | Related terms |
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 that of an external rhythm in its environment
(biology) Capable of being entrained, or brought into a specific rhythm
* {{quote-book, 2000, Friedrich K. Stephan, chapter=Food Shift Effect, editor=George Fink, Encyclopedia of Stress A-D
, passage=A number of other studies indicate that there are interactions between light-entrainable' and food-' entrainable circadian systems, ie, the period and phase of one has an effect on the other.}}
Entrainment is a related term of entrainable.
In biology|lang=en terms the difference between entrainment and entrainable
is that entrainment is (biology) the alignment of an organism's circadian rhythm to that of an external rhythm in its environment while entrainable is (biology) capable of being entrained, or brought into a specific rhythm.As a noun entrainment
is any of several processes in which a solid or liquid is put into motion by a fluid.As an adjective entrainable is
(biology) capable of being entrained, or brought into a specific rhythm.entrainment
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(wikipedia entrainment) (en noun)entrainable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- a food-entrainable oscillator
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