# induction
## English
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English induction, from Old French induction, from Latin inductiō, from indūcō (“I lead”). By surface analysis, induct +‎ -ion or induce +‎ -tion.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪnˈdʌkʃən/
* Rhymes: -ʌkʃən
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

induction (countable and uncountable, plural inductions)
* An act of inducting.
** 1612–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Honest Mans Fortune”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance.
** c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:These promises are fair, the parties sure, / And our induction full of prosperous hope.
** A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
*** 2006 February 24, Leslie Feinberg, “Civil rights leaders faced red-baiting, gay-baiting”, in Workers World‎:[Strom] Thurmond also condemned [Bayard] Rustin for having refusing military induction as a conscientious objector.
** The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
* An act of inducing.
** 2002, Gilbert S. Banker, Christopher T. Rhodes, Modern Pharmaceutics, 4th edition, Informa Health Care, →ISBN, page 699:One of the first examples of the immunogenicity of recombinantly derived antibodies was with murine anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (OKT3) used in the induction of immunosupression after organ transplantation.
** (physics) Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
** (logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
    Antonym: deduction
    Meronym: abstraction
** (mathematics) A method of proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific case (often an integer; usually 0 or 1) and showing that, if it is true for one case then it must be true for the next.
** (theater) Use of rumors to twist and complicate the plot of a play or to narrate in a way that does not have to state truth nor fact within the play.
** (embryology) Given a group of cells that emits or displays a substance, the influence of this substance on the fate of a second group of cells
** (mechanical engineering) The delivery of air to the cylinders of an internal combustion piston engine.
* (medicine) The process of inducing the birth process.
* (obsolete) An introduction.
** 1619, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, The Fatal Dowry:This is but an induction: I'lldraw / The curtains of the tragedy hereafter.

#### Quotations

* For quotations using this term, see Citations:induction.

#### Derived terms

* adipoinduction
* autoinduction
* backward induction
* chondroinduction
* coinduction
* co-induction
* counterinduction
* deinduction
* electromagnetic induction
* enantioinduction
* forced induction
* grammar induction
* hyperinduction
* inductional
* induction axiom
* induction circuit
* induction coil
* induction cooker
* induction cooking
* induction cut
* induction flowmeter
* induction furnace
* induction generator
* induction heater
* induction heating
* induction hypothesis
* inductionism
* inductionless
* induction loop
* induction motor
* induction oven
* induction period
* induction programme
* induction range
* induction therapy
* induction training
* induction variable
* induction welding
* mathematical induction
* metainduction
* meta-induction
* microinduction
* mutual induction
* neuroinduction
* osteoinduction
* overinduction
* photoinduction
* planar induction
* postinduction
* preinduction
* reinduction
* rhetorical induction
* self-induction
* Solomonoff induction
* stereoinduction
* superinduction
* thermoinduction
* transfinite induction

#### Translations
### References

* (embryology) J.M.W. Slack (1991) “The concepts of experimental embryology”, in From Egg to Embryo, 2 edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 32

## French
### Etymology

From Latin inductio.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛ̃.dyk.sjɔ̃/

### Noun

induction f (plural inductions)
* induction

#### Descendants

* → Turkish: endüksiyon

### Further reading

* “induction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.