Induction

GRE

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noun

Date: 14th century
1.
- a. the act or process of inducting (as into office)
- b. an initial experience ; initiation
- c. the formality by which a civilian is inducted into military service
2.
- a.
  - (1) inference of a generalized conclusion from particular instances — compare deduction 2a
  - (2) a conclusion arrived at by induction
- b. mathematical demonstration of the validity of a law concerning all the positive integers by proving that it holds for the integer 1 and that if it holds for an arbitrarily chosen positive integer k, it must hold for the integer k + 1 — called also mathematical induction
3. a preface, prologue, or introductory scene especially of an early English play
4.
- a. the act of bringing forward or adducing (as facts or particulars)
- b. the act of causing or bringing on or about
- c. the process by which an electrical conductor becomes electrified when near a charged body, by which a magnetizable body becomes magnetized when in a magnetic field or in the magnetic flux set up by a magnetomotive force, or by which an electromotive force is produced in a circuit by varying the magnetic field linked with the circuit
- d. the inspiration of the fuel-air charge from the carburetor into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine
- e. the process by which the fate of embryonic cells is determined (as by the action of adjacent cells) and morphogenetic differentiation brought about