induction
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美[?n'd?k??n]
- n. [電磁] 感應；歸納法；感應現象；入門培訓，入職儀式
英英釋意
- 1. a formal entry into an organization or position or office;
- "his initiation into the club"
- "he was ordered to report for induction into the army"
- "he gave a speech as part of his installation into the hall of fame"
- 2. an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current
- 3. reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- 4. the process whereby changes in the current flow in a circuit produce magnetism or an EMF
- 5. stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors;
- "the elicitation of his testimony was not easy"
- 6. (physics) a property of an electric circuit by which an electromotive force is induced in it by a variation of current
- 7. the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time);
- "the induction of an anesthetic state"
- 8. an act that sets in motion some course of events