Conduction vs. Induction
Conductionnoun
(physics) The conveying of heat or electricity through material.
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The act of leading or guiding.
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(obsolete) The act of training up.
Conductionnoun
The act of leading or guiding.
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The act of training up.
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Transmission through, or by means of, a conductor; also, conductivity.
Conductionnoun
the transmission of heat or electricity or sound
Inductionnoun
An act of inducting.
Inductionnoun
A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
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The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
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An act of inducing.
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(physics) Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
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(logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
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(mathematics) 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.
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(theater) 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.
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(biology) 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.
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(medicine) The process of inducing the birth process.
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(obsolete) An introduction.
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The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.
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An introduction or introductory scene, as to a play; a preface; a prologue.
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The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal; also, the result or inference so reached.
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The introduction of a clergyman into a benefice, or of an official into a office, with appropriate acts or ceremonies; the giving actual possession of an ecclesiastical living or its temporalities.
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A process of demonstration in which a general truth is gathered from an examination of particular cases, one of which is known to be true, the examination being so conducted that each case is made to depend on the preceding one; - called also successive induction.
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The property by which one body, having electrical or magnetic polarity, causes or induces it in another body without direct contact; an impress of electrical or magnetic force or condition from one body on another without actual contact.
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a formal entry into an organization or position or office;
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an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current
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reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
Inductionnoun
the process whereby changes in the current flow in a circuit produce magnetism or an EMF
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stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors;
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(physics) a property of an electric circuit by which an electromotive force is induced in it by a variation of current
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the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time);
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an act that sets in motion some course of events
