induction

noun inductions

1. countable, uncountable An act of inducting. I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance.
2. countable, uncountable A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service. [Strom] Thurmond also condemned [Bayard] Rustin for having refusing ^([sic]) military induction as a conscientious objector.
3. countable, uncountable The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study. Near-synonym: orientation

   Similar: orientation

4. countable, uncountable An act of inducing. One of the first examples of the immunogenicity of recombinantly derived antibodies was with murine anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (OKT3) used in the induction of immunosupression after organ transplantation.
5. countable, uncountable Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
6. countable, uncountable Derivation of general principles from specific instances. Meronym: abstraction

   Opposite: deduction

7. countable, uncountable 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. countable, uncountable 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.
9. countable, uncountable Given a group of cells that emits or displays a substance, the influence of this substance on the fate of a second group of cells.
10. countable, uncountable The delivery of air to the cylinders of an internal combustion piston engine.
11. countable, uncountable The process of inducing labour for the childbirth process.
12. countable, obsolete, uncountable An introduction. This is but an induction: I'lldraw / The curtains of the tragedy hereafter.