inductions in English

noun

1

the action or process of inducting someone to a position or organization.

the league's induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame

2

the process or action of bringing about or giving rise to something.

isolation, starvation, and other forms of stress induction

3

the inference of a general law from particular instances.

Similarly, there is no deductive proof that induction - inference from past evidence to future occurrences - is valid.

4

the production of an electric or magnetic state by the proximity (without contact) of an electrified or magnetized body.

Other topics he worked on include wave propagation, electrical induction , earthquakes, aeronautics, and the theory of tides.

5

the stage of the working cycle of an internal combustion engine in which the fuel mixture is drawn into the cylinders.

In speaking of Newtonian mechanics, he praised it for bringing so much under so few hypotheses, and spoke of it as a ‘consilience of inductions .’

noun

inductance
generalization, inductive reasoning
trigger, initiation
initiation, installation
elicitation, evocation

Use "inductions" in a sentence

1. Charles Woodson, Steve Hutchinson’s Hall of Fame inductions ‘a thrill’ for Michigan’s Lloyd Carr

2. What does Consilience mean? The agreement of two or more inductions drawn from different sets of data; concurrence

3. The term “Consilience” was coined by the nineteenth-century British philosopher and scientist William Whewell, as part of the phrase “the Consilience of inductions.” According to Whewell, the Consilience of inductions takes place when an induction obtained from one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from a different class.

4. Note: The word Audiometer was used for a device developed by the British inventor David Edward Hughes (1831-1900), described by him in "On an Inductions-Current Balance, and Experimental …

5. "Consilience of inductions" is a phrase that was invented by the nineteenth-century English historian and philosopher of science William Whewell (1794 – 1866; pronounced "Hule"), and introduced in his Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840)