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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.

Pertaining to, or proceeding by, induction; inductive.

Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by to. A brutish vice, Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve. Milton.

By induction or inference.

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

The person who inducts another into an office or benefice.

An induction coil.

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

Induction in a circuit due to the action of one portion of a current upon an adjacent portion during periods of varying current strength. The nature of the induction is such as to oppose the action which produces it.

The act of superinducing, or the state of being superinduced. South.

Applied to knowledge which is based upon or derived from facts through induction or experiment; inductive or empirical.

The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true. Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every…