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.