induction
An act of inducting.
Other meanings
A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
Related words
- induction hypothesis
- backward induction
- co-induction
- electromagnetic induction
- induction heater
- induction oven
- meta-induction
- mutual induction
- planar induction
- rhetorical induction
- self-induction
- transfinite induction
Word history
From Latin "inductiō".
Where this comes from
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