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Induction   /ɪndˈəkʃən/   Listen
Induction

noun
1.
A formal entry into an organization or position or office.  Synonyms: initiation, installation.  "He was ordered to report for induction into the army" , "He gave a speech as part of his installation into the hall of fame"
2.
An electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current.  Synonym: inductance.
3.
Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.  Synonyms: generalisation, generalization, inductive reasoning.
4.
Stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors.  Synonyms: elicitation, evocation.
5.
The act of bringing about something (especially at an early time).
6.
An act that sets in motion some course of events.  Synonyms: initiation, trigger.



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"Induction" Quotes from Famous Books



... member of the staffs of other notable British hospitals, extends but does not complete the list in this paragraph on page 652 of his Practical Obstetrics: "Certain of the conditions enumerated form absolute indications for the induction of abortion. These are nephritis, uncompensated valvular lesions of the heart, advanced tuberculosis, insanity, irremediable malignant tumors, hydatidiform mole, uncontrollable uterine hemorrhage, and ...
— Woman and the New Race • Margaret Sanger

... recorded of these matters, as an induction to the warres which followed betwixt the Scots and Danes as confederates against king Adelstane: but the truth thereof we leaue to the readers owne iudgement. For in our English writers we find no such matter, but that a daughter of king ...
— Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) - The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England • Raphael Holinshed

... "Messiah" is never applied to the expected deliverer of the Israelites in the whole bible, except, perhaps, in ii. Psalm. It is an appellation indifferently applied to kings, and priests, and prophets; to all who were anointed, as an induction into their office, and has nothing in it peculiar and exclusive; but the application of it to the expected deliverer of Israel, originated in and from the Targums. 3. In order to make this prophecy, and this phrase, "Messiah the prince," or "the anointed prince," ...
— The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old • George Bethune English

... Although he was thus led under an imperative sense of duty, to enter the lists of controversy with Mr. David Dickson, who was now Professor of Theology in the University of Edinburgh, but who at the time of the induction of the author, being a member of the presbytery, had presided at his ordination, it is pleasant to observe, that even when expressing himself most strongly, Binning treats his former colleague in the University of Glasgow, ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning

... discovery can be made, by actually making it. No general talk about induction: no reliance upon the mere fact that certain experiments or observations have been made; let us see where Bacon's induction has been actually used or can be used. Mere induction, enumeratio simplex, is spoken of by himself with contempt, as utterly incompetent. For Bacon knew well that a thousand instances may be contradicted by the thousand and first: so that no enumeration of instances, however large, is "sure demonstration," ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan


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