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 daw / 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

Translations

the act of inducting

• 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

• 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

• 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)
• 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)
• 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.

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).