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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



... representation before queen Elizabeth. He then, about the year 1557 as is supposed, laid the plan of an extensive work to be called "A Mirror for Magistrates;" of which the design is thus unfolded in a highly poetical "Induction." ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin
... leave this controversy to naturalists. What will remain eventually in their science of the system under discussion? The answer belongs to the future enlightened by experience and by the employment of a sage induction. What is the relation existing between these systematic views and the question of the Creator? This is the sole object ...
— The Heavenly Father - Lectures on Modern Atheism • Ernest Naville
... Among his MSS. in Lord Portsmouth's library at Hurstbourne are whole folios of astrologic calculations. It went on till the end of the seventeenth century, and died out only when men had begun to test it, and all other occult sciences, by experience, and induction founded thereon. ...
— Historical Lectures and Essays • Charles Kingsley
... gives an interesting account of his induction into the mysteries of Isis: how, bidding farewell one evening to the general congregation outside, and clothed in a new linen garment, he was handed by the priest into the inner recesses of the temple itself; how he "approached ...
— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter
... frequent repetition of this process of induction at last brings about a readiness, and the transferrence begins to discover a beauty in what at first was regarded simply as a means. The youth begins to linger in the process without knowing why. Without observing it, he is often attracted to think about this means. Now is the time ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller


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