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Inductive adj.

Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; usually followed by to. "A brutish vice, Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve."

Tending to induce or cause. (R.) "They may be... inductive of credibility."

Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or using, induction; as, inductive reasoning.

(Physics)

(a)

Operating by induction; as, an inductive electrical machine.

(b)

Facilitating induction; susceptible of being acted upon by induction; as, certain substances have a great inductive capacity.

Inductive embarrassment (Physics), the retardation in signaling on an electric wire, produced by lateral induction.

Inductive philosophy or Inductive method. See Philosophical induction, under Induction.

Inductive sciences, those sciences which admit of, and employ, the inductive method, as astronomy, botany, chemistry, etc.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inductive" Quotes from Famous Books

... PSYCHIC INFLUENCE: ITS LAWS AND PRINCIPLES The laws and principles underlying the power of one mind to influence and affect another mind. More than ordinary telepathy. The inductive power of mental vibrations. Everything is in vibration. Mental vibrations are much higher in the scale than are physical vibrations. What "induction" is. How a mental state, or an emotional feeling, tends to induce a similar state in another mind. ...

— Clairvoyance and Occult Powers • Swami Panchadasi

... have a coil without any inductance, that is, he would have only the natural inertia of the electrons to deal with. We would say that he had made a coil with "pure resistance" or else that he had made a "non-inductive resistance." ...

— Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son • John Mills

... the experiments. The authors possess the great scientific virtue of never dogmatising. In the entire book not a single law is laid down, not a single hypothesis is advanced, which is not reached by the most approved inductive processes. A great service of the book lies in its enunciation of new and trustworthy methods for studying the physiology of the brain in health and disease, while it brings into the realm of physical experiment vexed questions of ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, July 1887 - Volume 1, Number 6 • Various

... modification' without the distinctive Darwinian adjunct of 'natural selection' or survival of the fittest. Yet it was just that lever dexterously applied, and carefully weighted with the whole weight of his endlessly accumulated inductive instances, that finally enabled our modern ...

— Luck or Cunning? • Samuel Butler

... time, we might have helped to proscribe, or to burn—had he been stubborn enough to warrant cremation—even the great pioneer of inductive research; although, when we had fairly recovered our composure, and had leisurely excogitated the matter, we might have come to conclude that the new doctrine was better than the old one, after all, at least for those ...

— Atlantic Monthly Vol. 6, No. 33, July, 1860 • Various

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