Induction
[ɪn'dʌkʃ(ə)n] or [ɪn'dʌkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time); 'the induction of an anesthetic state'.
(noun.) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current.
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Definition
(n.) The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.
(n.) An introduction or introductory scene, as to a play; a preface; a prologue.
(n.) The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal; also, the result or inference so reached.
(n.) The introduction of a clergyman into a benefice, or of an official into a office, with appropriate acts or ceremonies; the giving actual possession of an ecclesiastical living or its temporalities.
(n.) A process of demonstration in which a general truth is gathered from an examination of particular cases, one of which is known to be true, the examination being so conducted that each case is made to depend on the preceding one; -- called also successive induction.
(n.) The property by which one body, having electrical or magnetic polarity, causes or induces it in another body without direct contact; an impress of electrical or magnetic force or condition from one body on another without actual contact.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Introduction (into office), installation, inauguration, institution.[2]. Conclusion (from many facts), inference, inductive method, Baconian method.[3]. (Physics.) Influence of proximity.
Typist: Michael
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Collection, collation, gathering, {application_(as_correlative_to_it)}
ANT:Statement, generalization, proposition, class, principle, law, deduction,inference, argumentation, discourse
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Examples
- I hadn't any particular work to give him, but I had a number of small induction coils, and to give him something to do I told him to fix them up and sell them among his sailor friends. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The application was filed May 23, 1885, at the time he was working on induction telegraphy (two years before the publication of the work of Hertz), but the patent (No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A change in the character of the current generated by the dynamo is made by what is known as the transformer, in which the principle of the induction coil is made available. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Henry in America was, contemporaneously with Faraday, developing electricity by means of magnetic induction. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The primary of the induction-coil is connected as shown, one end going to key K and the other to the buzzer circuit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The ties that bind electricity and magnetism in twinship of relation and interaction were detected, and Faraday's work in induction gave the world at once the dynamo and the motor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The high-resistance secondary circuit of an induction coil is located in circuit between the condensing surface and the ground. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The system inaugurated by Edison is shown by the diagram (Fig. 3), in which the carbon transmitter, the induction-coil, the line, and the distant receiver are respectively indicated. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- According to Bacon it is in the process of exclusion that the foundations of true induction are laid. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But when we noticed it on this vibrator it seemed so strong that it struck us forcibly there might be something more than induction. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The train, and also each signalling station, was equipped with regulation telegraph apparatus, such as battery, key, relay, and sounder, together with induction-coil and condenser. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No modern telephone system is in use to-day that does not use these characteristic features: the varying resistance and the induction-coil. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Various electrical machines may be used for this purpose, the Holtz, or the Wimshurst glass plate machine, the Ruhmkorff, or induction coil, or even the high frequency transformer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The discovery of induction currents by Faraday in 1831 brought a new era in the medical application of electricity, in the use of what is known as the Faradaic current. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A constant discharge of electricity of high tension between the electrodes is effected by means of an induction-coil. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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