induction

induction is a 9-letter English word with 12 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.
2. noun. An introduction or introductory scene, as to a play; a preface; a prologue.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. 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.
7. noun. an act that sets in motion some course of events

   Synonyms: initiation, trigger

8. noun. the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time)

   "the induction of an anesthetic state"

9. noun. reasoning from detailed facts to general principles

   Synonyms: generalisation, generalization

10. noun. stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors

    "the elicitation of his testimony was not easy"

    Synonyms: elicitation, evocation

11. noun. a formal entry into an organization or position or office

    "his initiation into the club"

    "he was ordered to report for induction into the army"

    Synonyms: initiation, installation

12. noun. an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current

    Synonyms: inductance

Synonyms

initiation, trigger, generalisation, generalization, elicitation, evocation, installation, inductance

Common word forms

inductions, inductional, inductionless

Words from these letters

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