Entrainment

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-009707",
  "term": "Entrainment",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. When aquatic organisms, including eggs and larvae, are pulled from a water body into an industrial facility cooling system, passed through the heat exchanger, and then discharged back into the source water body.\n\n2. The mixing of environmental air into a preexisting air current or cloud so that the environmental air becomes part of the current or cloud.",
  "subject": "Water",
  "references": [
    "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Glossary",
    "DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/entrainment/"
}