Induction vs. Orientation

Inductionnoun

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.

Inductionnoun

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

Inductionnoun

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

Orientationnoun

(countable) The determination of the relative position of something or someone.

Orientationnoun

(countable) The relative physical position or direction of something.

Orientationnoun

(uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.

Orientationnoun

(countable) An inclination, tendency or direction.

Orientationnoun

(countable) The ability to orient.

Orientationnoun

(countable) An adjustment to a new environment.

Orientationnoun

(countable) An introduction to a (new) environment.

Orientationnoun

(education) Events to orient new students at a school; events to help new students become familiar with a school.

Orientationnoun

The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.

Orientationnoun

The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.

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The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented (or "nonorientable"); the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.

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The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.

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The tendency of a revolving body, when suspended in a certain way, to bring the axis of rotation into parallelism with the earth's axis.

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An aspect or fronting to the east; especially (Arch.), the placing of a church so that the chancel, containing the altar toward which the congregation fronts in worship, will be on the east end.

Orientationnoun

A return to first principles; an orderly arrangement.

Orientationnoun

the act of orienting

Orientationnoun

an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs

Orientationnoun

position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions

Orientationnoun

a predisposition in favor of something;

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a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships

Orientationnoun

a course introducing a new situation or environment

Orientationnoun

the action of orienting someone or something relative to the points of a compass or other specified positions

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the relative position or direction of something

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the faculty by which birds and other animals find their way back to a place after going or being taken to a place distant from it

Orientationnoun

a person's basic attitude, beliefs, or feelings in relation to a particular subject or issue

Orientationnoun

short for sexual orientation

Orientationnoun

familiarization with something

Orientationnoun

a course giving information to newcomers to a university or other institution.