"The entrapment of the victims in the wreckage made rescue difficult."
2.NounAction by law enforcement personnel to lead an otherwise innocent person to commit a crime, in order to arrest and prosecute that person for the crime.
"A detective asking you to buy illegal marijuana for a dying man would be police entrapment."
3.NounA method of isolating specific cells or molecules from a mixture, especially by immobilization on a gel.