zeitgeber
The environmental agent or event (German time-giver) that provides the cue for setting or resetting a biological clock mechanism.
zeitgeber Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
... A word derived from German: zeit , time; geber , give; a zeitgeber is a synchronizing agent, as in an environmental cue responsible for maintaining biological rhythms. For example, alternation of light and darkness between night and day acts as a zeitgeber for diurnal...
zeitgeber Quick reference
A Dictionary of Biomedicine (2 ed.)
...zeitgeber The environmental agent or event ( German time-giver) that provides the cue for setting or resetting a biological clock mechanism....
Zeitgeber n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... n. An environmental cue as to the passage of time, such as the diurnal cycle of light and dark, that tends to calibrate and synchronize a biological clock to the external passage of time. Also called a synchronizer . See also entrainment . [From German Zeitgeber a timer, from Zeit time + geben to...
zeitgeber Quick reference
A Dictionary of Animal Behaviour (2 ed.)
... The agent that entrains the endogenous * rhythm to the external environment. For example, a 24-hour cycle of external temperature, with an amplitude of 0.6°C, is sufficient to act as a zeitgeber (meaning time-giver) to entrain the daily activity cycles of lizards ( Draco spp.). The zeitgeber can be any feature of the external environment that provides information about the passage of time. The most important of these is the apparent movement of celestial bodies, such as the sun, moon, and stars. Such influences have been much studied in birds and...
zeitgeber noun Reference library
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English
... noun plural same, zeitgebers M20 German (from Zeit time + Geber giver). Physiology A rhythmically occurring event, especially in the environment, that acts as a cue in the regulation of certain biological rhythms in an...
zeitgeber
circannual rhythm
chronobiology
infradian rhythm
biological rhythm
synchronizer
entrainment
biological clock
circadian rhythm
synchronizer n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... n . Another name for a Zeitgeber...
diurnal rhythm n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
...rhythm n. Another name for a circadian rhythm . See also biological clock , chronobiology , Zeitgeber...
entrainment Quick reference
A Dictionary of Biomedicine (2 ed.)
...entrainment Synchonization of an endogenous clock-driven rhythm with an external environmental rhythm. See Zeitgeber...
