Crossword clues for induction
induction
- Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- An electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current
- A formal entry into a position or office
- The act of bringing about something (especially at an early time)
- Popular passage, one acceptable in investiture
- Stimulation that calls up (evokes or induces or elicits) a particular class of behaviors
- An act that sets in motion some course of events
- (physics) a property of an electric circuit by which an electromotive force is induced in it by a variation of current
- The process whereby changes in the current flow in a circuit produce magnetism or an EMF
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Magnetic \Mag*net"ic\, Magnetical \Mag*net"ic*al\, a. [L. magneticus: cf. F. magn['e]tique.]
Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties; as, a magnetic bar of iron; a magnetic needle.
Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, the earth's magnetism; as, the magnetic north; the magnetic meridian.
Capable of becoming a magnet; susceptible to magnetism; as, the magnetic metals.
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Endowed with extraordinary personal power to excite the feelings and to win the affections; attractive; inducing attachment.
She that had all magnetic force alone.
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Having, susceptible to, or induced by, animal magnetism, so called; hypnotic; as, a magnetic sleep. See Magnetism. [Archaic] Magnetic amplitude, attraction, dip, induction, etc. See under Amplitude, Attraction, etc. Magnetic battery, a combination of bar or horseshoe magnets with the like poles adjacent, so as to act together with great power. Magnetic compensator, a contrivance connected with a ship's compass for compensating or neutralizing the effect of the iron of the ship upon the needle. Magnetic curves, curves indicating lines of magnetic force, as in the arrangement of iron filings between the poles of a powerful magnet. Magnetic elements.
(Chem. Physics) Those elements, as iron, nickel, cobalt, chromium, manganese, etc., which are capable or becoming magnetic.
(Physics) In respect to terrestrial magnetism, the declination, inclination, and intensity.
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See under Element.
Magnetic fluid, the hypothetical fluid whose existence was formerly assumed in the explanations of the phenomena of magnetism; -- no longer considered a meaningful concept.
Magnetic iron, or Magnetic iron ore. (Min.) Same as Magnetite.
Magnetic needle, a slender bar of steel, magnetized and suspended at its center on a sharp-pointed pivot, or by a delicate fiber, so that it may take freely the direction of the magnetic meridian. It constitutes the essential part of a compass, such as the mariner's and the surveyor's.
Magnetic poles, the two points in the opposite polar regions of the earth at which the direction of the dipping needle is vertical.
Magnetic pyrites. See Pyrrhotite.
Magnetic storm (Terrestrial Physics), a disturbance of the earth's magnetic force characterized by great and sudden changes.
Magnetic telegraph, a telegraph acting by means of a magnet. See Telegraph.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "advancement toward the grace of God;" also (c.1400) "formal installation of a clergyman," from Old French induction (14c.) or directly from Latin inductionem (nominative inductio) "a leading in, introduction," noun of action from past participle stem of inducere "to lead" (see induce).\n
\nAs a term in logic (early 15c.) it is from Cicero's use of inductio to translate Greek epagoge "leading to" in Aristotle. Induction starts with known instances and arrives at generalizations; deduction starts from the general principle and arrives at some individual fact. As a term of science, c.1800; military service sense is from 1934, American English.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An act of inducting. 2 # A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service. 3 An act of induce. 4 # (context physics English) generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field. 5 # (context logic English) derivation of general principles from specific instances. 6 # (context mathematics English) 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. 7 # (context theater English) 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. 8 # (context biology English) 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. 9 (lb en medicine) The process of inducing the birth process. 10 (context obsolete English) An introduction.
WordNet
n. a formal entry into an organization or position or office; "his initiation into the club"; "he was ordered to report for induction into the army"; "he gave a speech as part of his installation into the hall of fame" [syn: initiation, installation]
an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current
reasoning from detailed facts to general principles [syn: generalization, generalisation, inductive reasoning]
the process whereby changes in the current flow in a circuit produce magnetism or an EMF
stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors; "the elicitation of his testimony was not easy" [syn: evocation, elicitation]
(physics) a property of an electric circuit by which an electromotive force is induced in it by a variation of current [syn: inductance]
the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time); "the induction of an anesthetic state"
an act that sets in motion some course of events [syn: trigger, initiation]
Wikipedia
Induction may refer to:
An induction in a play is an explanatory scene, summary or other text that stands outside and apart from the main action with the intent to comment on it, moralize about it or in the case of dumb show to summarize the plot or underscore what is afoot. Typically, an induction precedes the main text of a play. Inductions are a common feature of plays written and performed in the Renaissance period, including those of Shakespeare. While Shakespeare plays do not typically have inductions, they are sometimes depicted as part of the device of the play within the play. Examples include the dumb show in Hamlet and the address to the audience by Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Another example, in The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd, is the introduction to that play by the ghost of Andrea who preps the audience by laying out the story to come. Likewise, Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew opens with induction scenes which involve characters watching the play proper.
Induction is used to refer to a period during which a Newly Qualified Teacher in England or Wales is both supported and assessed to ensure that regulatory standards are met.
Usage examples of "induction".
In collecting empirical laws from history, therefore, only very rough inductions can be hoped for, and we may have to be content with simple enumeration.
The greater indefiniteness of the Historical compared with the Physical Method, both in its inductions and in its deductions, makes it even more difficult to work with.
Now the premises of a sound argument must either be valid deductions, or valid inductions, or particular observations, or axioms.
In that he shows, with great logical skill, as well as with some humour, how the man who, on rising in the morning finds the parlourwindow open, the spoons and teapot gone, the mark of a dirty hand on the window-sill, and that of a hob-nailed boot outside, and comes to the conclusion that someone has broken open the window, and stolen the plate, arrives at that hypothesis--for it is nothing more--by a long and complex train of inductions and deductions of just the same kind as those which, according to the Baconian philosophy, are to be used for investigating the deepest secrets of Nature.
Why, then, did he not go back and cross out the Induction and these few lines at the end of the first scene?
As they negotiated the clutter of solenoids, induction coils, Crookes tubes, and photographic equipment, all inexplicably intertwined with pipets and tubing, Harold felt himself sorely missing the opportunities provided by a good lab.
Geoffrey Craig II, and Geoff had had to come home from Salzburg and report to the Armed Forces Induction Center in Lower Manhattan for a preInduction physical.
Everything came to a halt until Hiroshito discovered thermic induction, and we were able to elevate temperature almost indefinitely through a process similar to the induction of high electric potentials by means of transformers and the Ruhmkorff coil.
Induction of oral tolerance in splenocyte recipients toward pretransplant antigens ameliorates chronic graft versus host disease in a murine model.
He grounded his wires and sent high currents into the earth, but improved his system and took another step toward the final achievement by adding a large induction coil to his sending equipment.
He showed that the roarings in the wires were largely caused by electro-static induction.
Like the child who again and again builds up and demolishes his house of cards, he arranged and entangled alternately his chain of inductions and arguments.
The Kzin knew much about relativity weapons, anti-matter, neutron bombs, gravity planers, heat induction and now, as a result of contact with humans, the lethal properties of ramscoop fields and reaction drives in general.
While adjusting the induction feed, an ordinary chair would have also been dripping chemical suppressors into his bloodstream, hypnotic medications that would have dampened his sense of self and opened his mind to pure experience, unfiltered by his own consciousness.
As the induction helmet automatically retracted, he rummaged through the swingarm pharmacopoeia for a trank and an antacid.