duc-, -duce, -duct, -ducent, -ductor, -duction, -ductive, -ducer, -ducement, -ducation +

1. A ceremony or formal act by which a person is inducted, as into office or military service; such as, the registration and induction of military draftees.
2. With electricity, the generation of electromotive force in a closed circuit by a varying magnetic flux through the circuit.
3. In logic, the process of deriving general principles from particular facts or instances; a conclusion reached by this process.
4. The act or process of inducing or making something happen; such as, in medicine, the inducing of birth labor, whereby labor is initiated artificially with drugs such as oxytocin.
5. Presentation of material; such as, facts or evidence in support of an argument or proposition.
6. In electricity, the generation of voltages, currents, electric fields, or magnetic fields by interactions among these quantities without direct contact.

An instrument that detects the voltage of currents in seawater and is able to indicate the salinity of the water.

1. Involving, operating by, or caused by electric or magnetic induction.
2. Relating to the process of inducing a feeling, idea, or state.
3. Generalizing to produce a universal claim or principle from observed instances.
4. Using particular examples to reach a general conclusion about something: "He used inductive reasoning to come to his decision about accepting the new job."
5. Inductive interactions; such as, an established relationship between tissues manifested by the necessity for the action or presence of one tissue for the development of another tissue.

A method of transmitting data between tags and readers in which the antenna from the reader picks up changes in the tag’s antenna.

A reference to the process of discovering a general principle from a set of facts by induction or inference.

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

1. Something that inducts, especially a device that functions by, or introduces, inductance into a circuit.
2. The property of an electric circuit, or device, whereby an electromotive force is created by a change of current in it or in a circuit near it.

1. A battery-operated apparatus containing induction coils used for producing a continuous pulsing electric current or a single pulse of current; for example, for physiological or pharmacological experiments.
2. The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.
3. 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; an inference drawn from all the particulars.
4. 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.

Artificially producing fever by means of electromagnetic induction.

1. To present (someone) by name to another in order to establish an acquaintance.
2. To present (a performer, for example) to the public for the first time.
3. To bring forward (a plan, for example) for consideration.
4. To provide (someone) with a beginning knowledge or first experience of something: "He introduced me to weightlifting."
5. To bring in and establish in a new place or environment: "The exotic plants that had been introduced from the jungle."
6. To bring into current use, or practice; to originate: "They introduced the new product in several test markets"
. 7. To put inside or into; to insert or to inject.
8. To open or begin; to preface: "She introduced the lecture with a humorous experience."
9. To present for official consideration or action; for example, a legislative bill.
10. To bring in or to establish, as something foreign or alien: "French cooking was introduced into our family early in my life."

1. Not indigenous, not native to the area in which it now occurs.
2. That which was put inside or into; inserted or injected.
2. Brought in and established in a new place or environment.

1. Anyone who makes strangers known to each other.
2. Someone who brings any thing into notice or practice.
3. An instrument; such as, a catheter, needle, or endotracheal tube, for the introduction of a flexible device.

1. The act, or process, of introducing or the state of being introduced (make known by formal announcement or recommendation).
2. A means of presenting one person to another; verbally or in written form.
3. Something recently introduced; an innovation.
4. Something spoken, written, or otherwise presented when beginning or introducing something, especially: a preface, as to a book; a short preliminary passage in a larger musical movement or work; a basic introductory text or course of study.
5. An action of putting in, or of inserting; such as, the introduction of a catheter into a vein.

Serving to introduce; introductory; serving as the means to bring something forward.

Serving, or used, to introduce; preliminary; beginning: "The professor presented his introductory course in linguistics."