induction

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Etymology

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

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induction (countable and uncountable, plural inductions)

  1. An act of inducting.
    1. 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[1]:
        [Strom] Thurmond also condemned [Bayard] Rustin for having refusing [sic] military induction as a conscientious objector.
    2. The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
  2. 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.
    1. (physics) Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
    2. (logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
      Antonym: deduction
      Meronym: abstraction
    3. (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.
    4. (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.
    5. (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
    6. (mechanical engineering) The delivery of air to the cylinders of an internal combustion piston engine.
  3. (medicine) The process of inducing the birth process.
  4. (obsolete) An introduction.

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

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From Latin inductio.

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induction f (plural inductions)

  1. induction

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  • Turkish: endüksiyon

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