English Explanatory Dictionary

induction

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An act of inducting.
  2. A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
  3. The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
  4. An act of inducing.
  5. Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
  6. Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. The delivery of air to the cylinders of an internal combustion piston engine.
  11. The process of inducing labour for the childbirth process.
  12. An introduction.

Pronunciation

/ɪnˈdʌkʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-induction.wav

Word forms

induction inductions

Etymology

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

Synonyms

orientation

Antonyms

deduction

Derived words

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

Bulgarian: въвеждане Dutch: toeleiding Dutch: inductie Finnish: aiheuttaminen French: induction German: Einführung Greek: επαγωγή Greek: επιτάχυνση Italian: induzione Portuguese: indução Portuguese: induzimento Spanish: inducción Welsh: anwythiad Indonesian: induksi Indonesian: induksi persalinan
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