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Any lemurine animal of the genus Indris.

Not doubting; unsuspecting. "Indubious confidence." Harvey.

btful; too evident to admit of doubt; unquestionable; evident; apparently certain; as, an indubitable conclusion. -- n.

The state or quality of being indubitable.

Undoubtedly; unquestionably; in a manner to remove all doubt. Oracles indubitably clear and infallibly certain. Barrow.

To bring into doubt; to cause to be doubted. [Obs.] To conceal, or indubitate, his exigency. Sir T. Browne.

To lead in; to introduce. [Obs.] The poet may be seen inducing his personages in the first Iliad. Pope.

A current due to variation in the magnetic field surrounding its conductor.

The act of inducing, or the state of being induced.

One who, or that which, induces or incites.

Capable of being induced, caused, or made to take place.

To bring in; to introduce; to usher in. The independent orator inducting himself without further ceremony into the pulpit. Sir W. Scott.

Capacity for induction; the coefficient of self-induction.

A choking coil.

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

Not ductile; incapable of being drawn into threads, as a metal; inelastic; tough.

The quality or state of being inductile.

The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement. I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance. Beau. & Fl. These promises are fair, the parties sure, And our induction dull of prosperous hope. Shak.…

A machine built as an induction motor and driven above synchronous speed, thus acting as an alternating-current generator; - - called also asynchronous generator. Below synchronism the machine takes in electrical energy and acts as an induction motor; at synchronism the power component of current becomes zero and chang…

A type of alternating-current motor comprising two wound members, one stationary, called the stator, and the other rotating, called the rotor, these two members corresponding to a certain extent to the field and armature of a direct-current motor.