induction

English

Etymology

From Old French induction, from Latin inductiō, from indūcō (“I lead”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdʌkʃən/
• Rhymes: -ʌkʃən

Noun

induction (countable and uncountable, plural inductions)

1. An act of inducting.
   • Beaumont and Fletcher

     I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance.

   • Shakespeare

     These promises are fair, the parties sure, / And our induction full of prosperous hope.

   1. A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
   2. The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
2. An act of inducing.
   • 2002, Gilbert S. Banker & Christopher T. Rhodes, Modern Pharmaceutics, 4th edition, Informa Health Care, →ISBN, page 699:

     One of the first examples of the immunogenicity of recombinantly derived antibodies was with murine anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (OKT3) used in the induction of immunosupression after organ transplantation.

   1. (physics) Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
   2. (logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
   3. (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.
   4. (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.
   5. (biology) In developmental biology, the development of a feature from part of a formerly homogenous field of cells in response to a morphogen whose source determines the feature's position and extent.
3. (medicine) The process of inducing the birth process.
4. (obsolete) An introduction.
   • Massinger

     This is but an induction: I will draw / The curtains of the tragedy hereafter.

Quotations

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:induction.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• induction axiom
• induction circuit
• induction coil
• induction cooker
• induction cooking

• induction cut
• induction flowmeter
• induction furnace
• induction generator
• induction heating

• induction loop
• induction motor
• induction period
• induction programme
• induction range

• induction therapy
• induction training
• induction variable
• induction welding
• mathematical induction

Related terms

▼ English terms derived from the PIE root *dewk-‎ (0 c, 65 e)

  abduce

  abduct

  abduction

  adduce

  adduct

  adduction

  aqueduct

  co-educate

  conduce

  conduct

  conductor

  deduce

  deduct

  doge

  douche

  ducal

  ducat

  duchess

  duchy

  duct

  duke

  dux

  educable

  educatable

  educate

  educatee

  education

  educational

  educationalist

  educative

  educator

  heretog

  heretoga

  induce

  induct

  induction

  inductor

  introduce

  introduction

  produce

  product

  production

  productive

  reduce

  reduction

  redux

  resubdue

  seduce

  seduction

  subduable

  subdual

  subduct

  subduction

  subdue

  subduer

  team

  tee

  teem

  tie

  touch

  tow

  traduce

  transduce

  tuck

  tug

Translations

the act of inducting

• Bulgarian: въвеждане (bg) n (vǎveždane)
• Dutch: toeleiding f, inductie (nl) f
• Finnish: aiheuttaminen (fi)
• French: induction (fr) f

• German: Einführung (de) f
• Greek: επαγωγή (el) f (epagogí)
• Italian: induzione (it)

a formal ceremony in which a person is inducted into an office or into military service

• Bulgarian: зачисляване n (začisljavane)
• Finnish: virkaan vihkiminen
• German: Vereidigung (de) f

• Russian: официа́льное введе́ние в до́лжность (oficiálʹnoje vvedénije v dólžnostʹ)

generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field

• Bulgarian: индукция (bg) f (indukcija)
• Czech: indukce f
• Finnish: induktio (fi)
• French: induction (fr) f
• Galician: indución (gl) f
• German: Induktion (de) f
• Greek: επαγωγή (el) f (epagogí)
• Ido: indukto (io)

• Italian: induzione (it) f, autoinduzione f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: induksjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: induksjon m

• Russian: инду́кция (ru) f (indúkcija)
• Tagalog: karawitan

the derivation of general principles from specific instances

• Armenian: ինդուկցիա (hy) (indukcʿia), մակածություն (hy) (makacutʿyun)
• Bulgarian: индукция (bg) f (indukcija)
• Czech: indukce f
• Finnish: induktio (fi)
• French: induction (fr) f
• Galician: indución (gl) f
• Greek: επαγωγή (el) f (epagogí)
• Icelandic: aðleiðsla f

• Ido: indukto (io)
• Italian: induzione (it) f
• Khmer: អនុមានរួម (a’nu’maan ruəm)
• Lithuanian: indukcija (lt) f
• Russian: инду́кция (ru) f (indúkcija)
• Tagalog: pamuuran

a general proof of a theorem

• Czech: indukce f
• Finnish: induktio (fi), induktiotodistus
• German: Induktion (de) f
• Greek: επαγωγή (el) f (epagogí)

• Icelandic: þrepun f, stærðfræðileg þrepun f
• Russian: инду́кция (ru) f (indúkcija)
• Tagalog: pamuuran

the use of rumors to twist and complicate the plot

the development of a feature from part of a formerly homogenous field of cells

• French: induction (fr)
• Italian: induzione (it)

• Portuguese: indução (pt)
• Spanish: inducción

inducing a birth

• Greek: επιτάχυνση (el) f (epitáchynsi)

an introduction

• Russian: введе́ние (ru) n (vvedénije)

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French

Etymology

From Latin inductio.

Pronunciation

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Noun

induction f (plural inductions)

1. induction

Further reading

• “induction” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).