INDUCTION


Meaning of INDUCTION in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ in-ˈdək-shən ]

noun

Date: 14th century

1.

a. : the act or process of inducting (as into office)

b. : an initial experience : initiation

c. : the formality by which a civilian is inducted into military service

2.

a.

(1) : inference of a generalized conclusion from particular instances — compare deduction 2a

(2) : a conclusion arrived at by induction

b. : mathematical demonstration of the validity of a law concerning all the positive integers by proving that it holds for the integer 1 and that if it holds for an arbitrarily chosen positive integer k, it must hold for the integer k + 1 — called also mathematical induction

3. : a preface, prologue, or introductory scene especially of an early English play

4.

a. : the act of bringing forward or adducing (as facts or particulars)

b. : the act of causing or bringing on or about

c. : the process by which an electrical conductor becomes electrified when near a charged body, by which a magnetizable body becomes magnetized when in a magnetic field or in the magnetic flux set up by a magnetomotive force, or by which an electromotive force is produced in a circuit by varying the magnetic field linked with the circuit

d. : the inspiration of the fuel-air charge from the carburetor into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine

e. : the process by which the fate of embryonic cells is determined (as by the action of adjacent cells) and morphogenetic differentiation brought about

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.