verb

• (transitive) To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.
• (transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.
• (transitive) To induce the labour of (a pregnant woman).
• (physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
• (transitive, logic) To infer by induction.
• (transitive, obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.
• (transitive, obsolete) To draw on, place upon.