Induction vs. Introduction
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An act of inducting.
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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
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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
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The act or process of introducing.
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A means, such as a personal letter, of presenting one person to another.
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An initial section of a book or article, which introduces the subject material.
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A written or oral explanation of what constitutes the basis of an issue.
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The act of introducing, or bringing to notice.
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The act of formally making persons known to each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another.
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That part of a book or discourse which introduces or leads the way to the main subject, or part; preliminary; matter; preface; proem; exordium.
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A formal and elaborate preliminary treatise; specifically, a treatise introductory to other treatises, or to a course of study; a guide; as, an introduction to English literature.
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the first section of a communication
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the act of beginning something new;
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formally making a person known to another or to the public
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a basic or elementary instructional text
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a new proposal;
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the act of putting one thing into another
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the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new;
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the action of introducing something
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a thing newly brought into use or introduced to a place for the first time
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a formal presentation of one person to another, in which each is told the other's name
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a thing preliminary to something else, especially an explanatory section at the beginning of a book, report, or speech
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a preliminary section in a piece of music, often thematically different from the main section
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a book or course of study intended to introduce a subject to a person
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a person's first experience of a subject or thing
