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Matter added; increase; produce; production; -- opposed to decrement. "Large increment." J. Philips.

ake (Zoöl.), the gopher snake. -- Indigo white, a white crystalline powder obtained by reduction from indigo blue, and by oxidation easily changed back to it; -- called also indigogen. -- Indigo yellow, a substance obtained from indigo.

and resembling, indigo blue, and accompanying it as a side product, in its artificial production.

e, C8H7N, obtained from blue indigo, and almost all indigo derivatives, by a process of reduction. It is also formed from albuminous matter, together with skatol, by putrefaction, and by fusion with caustic potash, and is present in human excrement, as well as in the intestinal canal of some herbivora.…

A dark resinous substance, polymeric with indol, and obtained by the reduction of indigo white.

Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a leading to.

Obtainable by induction; derivable; inferable.

Capacity for induction; the coefficient of self-induction.

Rendered electro-polar by induction, or brought into the opposite electrical state by the influence of inductive bodies.

Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or using, induction; as, inductive reasoning.

By induction or inference.

An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the degree or rate of electrical induction.

An induction coil.

Acting by, or in a state of, induction; relating to electrical induction.

To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence. To infer is nothing but by virtue of one proposition laid down as true, to draw in another as true. Locke…

The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction. Though it may chance to be right in the conclusions, it is yet unjust and mistaken in the method of inference. Glanvill.

Induction.

A coming in; infusion; intromission; introduction; importation in abundance; also, that which flows or comes in; as, a great influx of goods into a country, or an influx of gold and silver. The influx of food into the Celtic region, however, was far from keeping pace with the influx of consumers. Macaulau. The general…

Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step. Bp. Hall.

The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc. Dryden.