induction

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)An act of inducting.

   “I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance.”

   “These promises are fair, the parties sure, / And our induction full of prosperous hope.”

2. (countable, uncountable)An act of inducting.

   “[Strom] Thurmond also condemned [Bayard] Rustin for having refusing ^([sic]) military induction as a conscientious objector.”

3. (countable, uncountable)An act of inducting.

   “Near-synonym: orientation”

4. (countable, uncountable)An act of inducing.

   “One of the first examples of the immunogenicity of recombinantly derived antibodies was with murine anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (OKT3) used in the induction of immunosupression after organ transplantation.”

5. (countable, uncountable)An act of inducing.
6. (countable, uncountable)An act of inducing.

   “Meronym: abstraction”

   “For the most part they contented themselves with repeating a few familiar facts or adding a few fresh theories ; they did not attempt a wide induction on the basis of a systematic collection and classification of the evidence.”

7. (countable, uncountable)An act of inducing.
8. (countable, uncountable)An act of inducing.
9. (countable, uncountable)An act of inducing.
10. (countable, uncountable)An act of inducing.
11. (countable, uncountable)The process of inducing labour for the childbirth process.
12. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)An introduction.

    “This is but an induction: I'lldraw / The curtains of the tragedy hereafter.”