induction

The process of bringing someone into an organization, role, or activity, often with initial training.

• New staff attend an induction.
• The induction course explains how the company works.
• His induction into the team took several days.

How to use it: induction into something (Her induction into the organization began with a training session.)

Similar words: introduction, initiation

Common phrases: staff induction, induction course, induction into something

A ceremony that officially gives someone a position or admits them into a group or military service.

• Her induction ceremony was brief.
• His family attended his induction into office.
• The recruits waited for their formal induction into military service.

How to use it: induction into something (His induction into the society took place on Friday.)

Similar words: initiation, admission, installation

Common phrases: induction ceremony, induction into something, military induction

The production of electricity by a changing magnetic field.

• The generator uses induction.
• Moving the magnet caused induction in the wire.
• Students measured the current produced by electromagnetic induction.

Similar words: electromagnetic induction

Common phrases: electromagnetic induction, induction coil, induction current

The use of medicine or other medical methods to make childbirth start.

• Her induction began on Monday.
• The midwife explained what would happen during induction.
• They discussed whether induction was needed for the overdue baby.

How to use it: induction of labour (The doctor discussed induction of labour with her.)

Similar words: labor induction

Common phrases: induction of labour, planned induction, labor induction

A way of reaching a general conclusion by looking at several particular examples.

• The argument relies on induction.
• She used induction to move from observations to a general claim.
• Induction does not guarantee that a conclusion is true.

How to use it: induction from something (Induction from observed cases can suggest a general rule.)

Similar words: inductive reasoning

Opposites: deduction

Common phrases: reasoning by induction, use induction, induction from something

A proof showing a statement holds first for one number, then for each next number in turn.

• We proved it by induction.
• The induction step uses the result for the previous integer.
• Have you checked the base case before applying mathematical induction?

Similar words: mathematical induction

Common phrases: mathematical induction, proof by induction, induction step