induction
IPA: ɪndˈʌkʃʌn
noun
- An act of inducting.
- A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
- The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
- An act of inducing.
- (physics) Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
- (logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
- (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.
- (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.
- (embryology) Given a group of cells that emits or displays a substance, the influence of this substance on the fate of a second group of cells
- (mechanical engineering) The delivery of air to the cylinders of an internal combustion piston engine.
- (medicine) The process of inducing the birth process.
- (obsolete) An introduction.
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Examples of "induction" in Sentences
- Their average age at induction is 24, Hopkins said.
- But isn't this an induction from a very small number of data points?
- The pocket-miner put two and two together, and made a correct induction from the different little things which came under his notice.
- The place of the problem of induction is usurped by the problem of the comparative goodness or badness of the rival conjectures or theories that have been proposed.
- The specific problem for the EF in particular and most of ID in general is not so much what you describe as the induction problem is this a well-known philosophical problem?
- If you can show me an instance of such a thing, that was not endowed with goals, foresight, knowledge, ability to learn, and induction from a previous human-like intelligence, my suspicion will be invalidated.
- _specific electric induction_ for different bodies, which, if it existed, would unequivocally prove the dependence of induction on the particles; and though this, in the theory of Poisson and others, has never been supposed to be the case, I was soon led to doubt the received opinion, and have taken great pains in subjecting this point to close experimental examination.
- In the next place, the charges at _a_, _c_, and _d_ were of such a nature as might be expected from an inductive action in straight lines, but that obtained at _b_ is _not so_: it is clearly a charge by induction, but _induction_ in _a curved line_; for the carrier ball whilst applied to _b_, and after its removal to a distance of six inches or more from B, could not, in consequence of the size of B, be connected by a straight line with any part of the excited and inducing shell-lac.
- The corresponding hydrodynamic phenomena may be regarded in a similar manner; thus, when a vibrating or pulsating body immersed in a liquid surrounds itself with a field of vibrations, or communicates vibrations to other immersed bodies within that vibratory field, the phenomena so produced may be looked upon as phenomena of hydrodynamic induction, while on the other hand, when a vibrating or pulsating body attracts or repels another pulsating or vibratory body (whether such vibrations be produced by outside mechanical agency or by hydrodynamical induction), then the phenomena so produced are those of hydrodynamical action, and it is in this way that we shall treat the phenomena throughout this article, using the words _induction_ and
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