induc

Noun

induction (countable and uncountable, plural inductions)

1. 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.1612–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Honest Mans Fortune”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647...
   1. 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.2006 February 24, Leslie Feinberg, “Civil rights leaders faced red-baiting, gay-baiting”, in Workers World
   2. The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
      • Near-synonym: orientation
2. 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.2002, Gilbert S. Banker, Christopher T. Rhodes, Modern Pharmaceutics, 4th edition, Informa Health Care, →ISBN, page 699
   1. Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
   2. Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
      • Meronym: abstraction

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