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induction

Academic Word List, sublist 8.

About 11.78 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun An act of inducting. A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service. The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
  2. noun A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
  3. noun The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
  4. noun An act of inducing. Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field. Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
  5. noun Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
  6. noun Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
  7. noun 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.
  8. noun 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.

Similar words

initiation evocation installation elicitation generalization inductive reasoning inductance trigger inauguration counseling

Often followed by

of and motor is in coil by motors into

Word family

induce induced induces inducing inductions mathematical induction

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