• Induction

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -ÊŒkʃən

    Origin

    From Old French induction, from Latin inductiō, from indūcō ("I lead").

    Full definition of induction

    Noun

    induction

    (plural inductions)
    1. An act of inducting.
      • Beaumont and FletcherI know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance.
      • ShakespeareThese promises are fair, the parties sure,
        And our induction full of prosperous hope.
      1. A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
    2. An act of inducing.
      • 2002, Gilbert S. Banker & Christopher T. Rhodes, Modern Pharmaceutics, 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.
      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. (biology) In developmental biology, the development of a feature from part of a formerly homogenous field of cells in response to a morphogen whose source determines the feature's position and extent.
    3. (obsolete) An introduction.
      • MassingerThis is but an induction: I will daw
        The curtains of the tragedy hereafter.

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