Induction Definition

ĭn-dŭkshən
noun
An inducting or being inducted; installation, initiation, etc.
Webster's New World
The act or an instance of inducting.
American Heritage
A ceremony or formal act by which a person is inducted, as into office or military service.
American Heritage
The generation of electromotive force in a closed circuit by a varying magnetic flux through the circuit.
American Heritage
A bringing forward of separate facts or instances, esp. so as to prove a general statement.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Induction

Noun

Singular:
induction
Plural:
inductions

Origin of Induction

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

    From Wiktionary

Induction Sentence Examples

  • The ordination and induction of ministers is always the act of a presbytery.

  • Telephonic speech between these two circuits was found possible and good, the communication between the circuits taking place partly by induction, and no doubt partly by conduction.

  • Weber, which was found capable of explaining all the phenomena investigated by Ampere as well as the induction currents of Faraday.

  • Induction is an effect of the field of force associated with a magnet.

  • The method of induction between insulated primary and secondary circuits laid out flat on the surface of the earth proves to be of limited application, and in his later experiments Preece returned to a method which unites both conduction and induction as the means of affecting one circuit by a current in another.

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Words Starting With

IININD

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NONION

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