Usually means: Deriving general principles from specifics.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. induction: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. induction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. induction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. induction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. induction: Vocabulary.com
  6. Induction, induction: Wordnik
  7. induction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. induction: Wiktionary
  9. induction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. induction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. induction: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. induction: Dictionary.com
  13. induction: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Induction (logic), Induction (mathematics), Induction (philosophy), Induction (play), Induction (teacher training stage), Induction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Induction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. induction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. induction: Rhymezone
  18. Induction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. induction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. induction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. induction: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. induction: Free Dictionary
  23. Induction: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. induction: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. Philosophy of Mind (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Induction (disambiguation), induction: Legal dictionary
  3. Induction (logic), Induction (philosophy): Financial dictionary
  4. Induction: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
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Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. induction: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Induction (biology), Induction (disambiguation), Induction (electricity), Induction (electricity and magnetism), Induction (math), Induction (mathematics), Induction (maths), induction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
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  3. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  4. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  5. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
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  8. Induction (birth), Induction (disambiguation), Induction (electricity), Induction (electricity and magnetism), Induction (logic), Induction (philosophy), induction: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. induction: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  3. induction: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Induction: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Induction: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Induction: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  5. Induction: Extragalactic Astronomy
  6. induction: Evolution Glossary
  7. induction: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  8. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  9. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
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  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  6. INDUCTION: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An act of inducting.
noun:  A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
noun:  The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
noun:  An act of inducing.
noun:  (physics) Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
noun:  (logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (embryology) 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
noun:  (mechanical engineering) The delivery of air to the cylinders of an internal combustion piston engine.
noun:  (medicine) The process of inducing the birth process.
noun:  (obsolete) An introduction.

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