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Guidance. [Obs.] Feltham.

The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress.

The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor.

A leading about; circumlocution. [R.] Hooker.

ey are in contact, or through a homogenous body from particle to particle, constitutes conduction. Amer. Cyc.

Act or process of deducing or inferring. The deduction of one language from another. Johnson. This process, by which from two statements we deduce a third, is called deduction. J. R. Seely.

The act of drawing apart; separation.

The act of drawing out or bringing into view. Eduction pipe, and Eduction port. See Exhaust pipe and Exhaust port, under Exhaust, a.

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.

Pertaining to, or proceeding by, induction; inductive.

each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another.

Guidance by the hand. [Obs.] Glanvill. South.

The quality of not being able to conduct or transmit; failure to conduct.

A failure to produce or exhibit.

.The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering. [Obs.]

Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.

The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.

being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province.