Webster's English Dictionaryinduction
in.duc.tion \in-'d*k-sh*n\ n 1a: the act or process of inducting (as into office) 1b: an initial experience : INITIATION 1c: the formality by which a civilian is inducted into military service 2a: the act, process, or result or an instance of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal 2b: mathematical demonstration of the validity of a law concerning all the positive integers by proving that it holds for the first integer and that if it holds for all the integers preceding a given integer it must hold for the next following integer 3: a preface, prologue, or introductory scene esp. of an early English play 4a: the act of bringing forward or adducing (as facts or particulars) 4b: the act of causing or bringing on or about 4c: the process by which an electrical conductor becomes electrified when n ear a charged body, by which a magnetizable body becomes magnetized when in a magnetic field or in the magnetic flux set up by a magnetomotive force, or by which an electromotive force is produced in a circuit by varying the magnetic field linked with the circuit 4d: the inspiration of the fuel-air charge from the carburetor into the com bustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine 4e: the sum of the processes by which the fate of embryonic cells is determ ined and morphogenetic differentiation brought about