induction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdʌkʃən/
rhymes: -ʌkʃən
Forms: form: inductions
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.
Senses: examples: text: I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance.
ref: 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:
text: These promises are fair, the parties sure, / And our induction full of prosperous hope.
ref: 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]:
glosses: An act of inducting.
examples: text: [Strom] Thurmond also condemned [Bayard] Rustin for having refusing ^([sic]) military induction as a conscientious objector.
ref: 2006 February 24, Leslie Feinberg, “Civil rights leaders faced red-baiting, gay-baiting”, in Workers World:
glosses: An act of inducting.
A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
glosses: An act of inducting.
The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2002, Gilbert S. Banker, Christopher T. Rhodes, Modern Pharmaceutics, 4th edition, Informa Health Care, →ISBN, page 699:
glosses: An act of inducing.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An act of inducing.
Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
examples: text: Meronym: abstraction
text: For the most part they contented themselves with repeating a few familiar facts or adding a few fresh theories ; they did not attempt a wide induction on the basis of a systematic collection and classification of the evidence.
ref: 1910, James George Frazer, Totemism and Exogamy, volume 1, page vii:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An act of inducing.
Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
antonyms: deduction
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An act of inducing.
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.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: An act of inducing.
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.
topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An act of inducing.
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.
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An act of inducing.
The delivery of air to the cylinders of an internal combustion piston engine.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The process of inducing labour for the childbirth process.
examples: text: This is but an induction: I'lldraw / The curtains of the tragedy hereafter.
ref: 1619, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, The Fatal Dowry:
glosses: An introduction.
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