entrainment

noun

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Enthusiasm, liveliness; impulsiveness.

   “Carlo Antonio Bertinazzi, he whom the French stage knows under the name of Carlin, was the gayest of all comedians; he knew a thousand ways of amusing his audience, and would make them die with pleasure and laughter by his affecting performance of the Vingt-six infortunes d’ Arlequin; the entrainment of his gaiety and bonhomie were everywhere extolled.”

   “A philosopher, through indolence and carelessness before the Revolution, superstitious afterwards, through weakness and entrainment [translating entraînement], he threatened the Revolution with his sword from a distance.”

   “At page 60, and elsewhere, the English general is only spoken of as a mere nobody, carried away resistlessly by the “entrainments” [translating entraînements] around him.”

   “The reviewer had to recognize [Thomas Babington] Macaulay’s talents; the entrainment of his picturesque, vivid, and pregnant execution could not be escaped.”

   “For Longinus, it is the rhetor’s public capacity to bring out the whole audience’s entrainment to sublimity that is most important.”

2. (countable, uncountable)Any of several processes in which a solid or liquid is put into motion by a fluid.
3. (countable, uncountable)Any of several processes in which a solid or liquid is put into motion by a fluid.
4. (countable, uncountable)Any of several processes in which a solid or liquid is put into motion by a fluid.
5. (countable, uncountable)Any of several processes in which a solid or liquid is put into motion by a fluid.
6. (countable, uncountable)The alignment of an organism's circadian rhythm to an external rhythm in its environment.
7. (countable, uncountable)The act of someone or something boarding or being put aboard a train.

   “An experienced officer will be placed in charge at each station which is to be used for the entrainment of volunteers near Windsor and at the Waterloo and Paddington Termini in London.”

   “The experimental line at Chatham is invaluable in practising entrainments, so that the work shall be performed in the shortest possible time.”

   “On the day of entrainment the chief of the entrainment point, together with the chief of the deportation train and of the convoying military forces of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs, shall examine the railway cars provided in order to see that they are supplied with everything necessary, […]”

   “Five mornings a week the earl took the 9:55 train up to town, and it was well worth the mile walk from our house to the station to witness his entrainment.”

   “The kidnapping charge focused attention on the march to the railroad station, the entrainment of victims, and their horrifying ride out of Hungary.”