entrainable

entrainable

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English entrain
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English entrainable

    From entrain + -able.

    Adjective

    entrainable (comparative more entrainable, superlative most entrainable)

    1. (biology) Capable of being entrained, or brought into a specific rhythm
      a food-entrainable oscillator
      • 2000, Friedrich K. Stephan, “Food Shift Effect”, in George Fink, editor, Encyclopedia of Stress A-D‎[1], →ISBN, page 168:
        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.

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