Entrainment

Entrainment means:

in physics the effect on which the synchronization is based. Injection locking
in process engineering, the entrainment of liquid droplets to the next higher column tray
In meteorology, the inclusion of ambient air through turbulence effects in the edge area of convection clouds. Entrainment (meteorology)
in chronobiology the coupling of an endogenous rhythm to an exogenous timer entrainment (biology)
in psycholinguistics the alignment of the interaction partners in the course of communication lexical entrainment
in the Musikethnologie in the Biomusikologie the ratio of rhythm and the human body

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