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Definition induction

Etymology

From Old French induction, from Latin inducti?, from ind?c? (“I lead”).

Noun

induction (countable and uncountable, plural inductions)

1. An act of inducting.
   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.
   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.

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