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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



... or a miniature world. He has a soul and mental firmament, bounded by the stellar dust and the milky way, and filled with the mystery of suns, satellites and stars. These he can study best by the astronomy of induction and introspection. He has also a physical plane, diversified by oceans, lakes, rivers, fertile valleys, waste places and mountains. All are in cosmic interdependency as they are in the macrocosm. Here rests the mystery of being—the grandest of subjects! The student is no less bewildered ...
— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller

... acquaintance, who gave one hundred and seventy crowns for his note of hand, which was taken as cash. I have already said that he was not rich. His living was worth about six thousand francs a year, but as this was the first year since his induction, he had as yet touched none of the receipts, and it was out of the future income that ...
— Manon Lescaut • Abbe Prevost

... on the wrong track," sounded a sharp voice in direct answer to Polly's thoughts—"altogether wrong. If you want to acquire my method of induction, and improve your reasoning power, you must follow my system. First think of the one absolutely undisputed, positive fact. You must have a starting-point, and not go wandering about ...
— The Old Man in the Corner • Baroness Orczy

... 1840 wife! Don't you know the suffragists will get you if you talk meek like that? What do you want to know? Volts, and dynamos, and induction coils?" ...
— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield

... poetic, associative-minded men of genius who have always preceded the greatest, strictly scientific minds, and far surpassed the latter in the comprehensiveness of their views. Bear with me, ye men of Induction, for I believe in the coming age, at whose threshold we even now stand, when ye and ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various


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