disentrainment
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act or process of falling out of entrainment; precipitation form a flow or current.
noun
The disruption of patterns of brain activity.
noun
Disruption of the natural alignment of circadian rhythms with the natural environment
Example Sentences
- "Subsequent disentrainment relies upon opportunities for gravity separation that occur in the normal course of processing, but particles which disentrain too slowly and can not be filtered remain in suspension to the possible detriment of product quality."
- "Nevertheless, many species of phytoplankton that are non-motile and are unencumbered by skeletal ballast (or the gas-filled spaces to offset it) survive through maintaining a state in which they do not travel far after disentrainment."
- "The challenge here is to find methods of separating entrainment from the simultaneous disentrainment or collapse processes that normally also occur and may themselves be linked to any bubble break-up that has occurred."
- "We might imagine a wave of activity, or reentrainent, among the cells making up a model, an activity having a beginning, a series of transformative phases (discrete entrainments, disentrainments, and reentrainments), and an ending."
- "A sudden overshoot during the postictal stage followed by significant disentrainment indicates the resetting feature of the seizure (the seizure restores the pre-seizure entrainment to a more normal state)."
- "A finite probability exists that the stimulus at any given time would have the right frequency and phase properties to effect the desired disentrainment that in the original ROSHI had been so carefully engineered."
Etymology
From disentrain + -ment.