# inductor
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin inductor, from Latin induco.

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

inductor (plural inductors)
* (electronics) A passive device that introduces inductance into an electrical circuit.
    Synonym: coil
* (medicine) An evocator or an organizer.
* One who, or that which, inducts.
    Antonym: inductee
** 1956, Charles Odier, Anxiety and Magic Thinking, New York, N.Y.: International Universities Press, Inc., →LCCN, page 281:In certain families one can find several “inductees” grouped around one influential “inductor.” I have observed the case of a forever complaining old lady, living with her married daughter, who attracted and shut everybody, mother, father, and two daughters, into the closed circle of their mutual and reciprocal lamentations.
** 1975, Industrial Economist, volume 8, page 11, column 2:He should take all efforts to see that a personal link is well established and he should shape the person in a very healthy way. The success of this lies in the capability of the inductor also who should be able to draw out the interests of the inductees.
** 1977, Frans N. Stokman, Roll Calls and Sponsorship, Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff, →ISBN, pages 141–142:The vertices of the induced graph (called inductees) are a subset of the vertices of the original graph. The induction can be limited to common neighbors in a certain subset of vertices of the original graph, called the subset of inductors. Each inductor induces edges between the inductees.
** 1979, Capital: A Weekly Journal of Commerce, Industry, and Finance, volume 182, page 169, columns 1–2:Employee induction is practised in this country by many establishments in some form or the other and with varying degree of emphasis. […] It is natural for an inductee to look to the inductor for correct information as and when he finds the real-life situations out of line with what was conveyed.
** 1986, The Bombay Law Reporter, volume 88, page 628:Amrolia had inducted his son Jamshed together with that person’s wife and two children to stay with him in the flat afore-mentioned. Later on, relations between the inductor and inductees deteriorated.
** 1994 July 9, Melinda Newman, “Pop Radio Gives Garth A Great Big Kiss; News & Notes From The VH-1 Honors”, in Billboard, volume 106, number 28, page 14:When honoree Kenny G. was asked if he had attended Woodstock, he replied, “No, I was just being bar mitzvahed then, so that was more important than being at Woodstock.” His inductor, Jon Lovitz, jumped in and said, “I’m not as religious as [Kenny]; I’d rather have been at Woodstock.”
** 2009, Holly George-Warren, editor, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The First 25 Years, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 49:Inductor Graham Nash seized on the on-again, off-again feud between brothers Ray and Dave Davies, noting that he hoped there were enough awards because “I don’t want to see the brothers fighting again.”
** 2012, Dan Fulop, Bob Breitbard: San Diego’s Sports Keeper, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 126:Breitbard, having served as inductor of numerous athletes into the Breitbard Hall of Fame for more than fifty years, finally became the inductee in 2006.

#### Related terms

* inductance

#### See also

* resistor
* capacitor

## Latin
### Etymology

From indūcō (“lead, bring in”) +‎ -tor (“-er”, agent suffix).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /inˈduk.tor/, [ɪn̪ˈd̪ʊkt̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /inˈduk.tor/, [in̪ˈd̪ukt̪or]

### Noun

inductor m (genitive inductōris); third declension
* one who stirs up or rouses one, a chastiser, scourger

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

### References

* “inductor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* inductor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* "inductor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French inducteur.

### Noun

inductor n (plural inductori)
* inductor

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin inductor, from Latin inducō.

### Adjective

inductor (feminine inductora, masculine plural inductores, feminine plural inductoras)
* inducing

### Noun

inductor m (plural inductores)
* inductor

#### Related terms

* inducir

### Further reading

* “inductor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10