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Category: Disambiguation This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Entrainment as commonly used in various branches of engineering may be defined as the entrapment of one substance by another substance. ... Entrainment is the movement of one fluid by another. ... See entrainment for other types. ... Entrainment is the process whereby two interacting oscillating systems, which have similar periods when they function independently, assume the same period. ... In chronobiology, entrainment of a circadian system is the alignment of its own period and phase to the period and phase of an external rhythm, which in this context is called zeitgeber. ... Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ...

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Scientific Overview of Brainwave Entrainment (431 words)
	Brainwave Entrainment refers to the brain's electrical response to rhythmic sensory stimulation, such as pulses of sound or light.
	The principles of entrainment are universal, appearing in chemistry, neurology, biology, pharmacology, medicine, astronomy and more.
	A clock is a simple example of a system responding to entrainment, but the same rules apply to more complex systems such as the brain.

Entrainment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (282 words)
	Entrainment is the process whereby two connected oscillating systems, having similar periods, fall into synchrony.
	Christian Huygens, a notable physicist, coined the term entrainment after he noticed, in 1666, that two pendulum clocks had moved into the same swinging rhythm, and subsequent experiments duplicated this process.
	In the realm of physics, entrainment appears to be related to resonance.

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