Definition of induction

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Induction (n.) A process of demonstration in which a general truth is gathered from an examination of particular cases, one of which is known to be true, the examination being so conducted that each case is made to depend on the preceding one; -- called also successive induction..

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Electrophorus :: Electrophorus (n.) An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal..
Superinduction :: Superinducement (n.) Superinduction.
Induction :: Induction (n.) The introduction of a clergyman into a benefice, or of an official into a office, with appropriate acts or ceremonies; the giving actual possession of an ecclesiastical living or its temporalities..
Induction :: Induction (n.) The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.
Inductometer :: Inductometer (n.) An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the degree or rate of electrical induction.
Inference :: Inference (n.) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
Infer :: Infer (v. t.) To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence..
Argumentation :: Argumentation (n.) The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true..
Donative :: Donative (n.) A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3..
Tetanus :: Tetanus (n.) That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of continued vibratory contraction, as when stimulated by a series of induction shocks..
Inductive :: Inductive (a.) Facilitating induction; susceptible of being acted upon by induction; as certain substances have a great inductive capacity.
Inductrical :: Inductrical (a.) Acting by, or in a state of, induction; relating to electrical induction..
Inductive :: Inductive (a.) Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or using, induction; as, inductive reasoning..
Voltaic :: Voltaic (a.) Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as, voltaic induction; the voltaic arc..
Induction :: Induction (n.) An introduction or introductory scene, as to a play; a preface; a prologue..
Superinfuse :: Superinduction (n.) The act of superinducing, or the state of being superinduced..
Henry :: Henry (n.) The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampere a second..
Inductively :: Inductively (adv.) By induction or inference.
Inducteous :: Inducteous (a.) Rendered electro-polar by induction, or brought into the opposite electrical state by the influence of inductive bodies..
Inductive :: Inductive (a.) Operating by induction; as, an inductive electrical machine..
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