Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

Definitioner

Substantiv

1. An act of inducting.
2. A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
3. An act of inducing.
4. (physics) Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
5. (logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
6. (mathematics) A method of proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific case (often an integer; usually 0 or 1) and showing that, if it is true for one case then it must be true for the next.
7. (theater) Use of rumors to twist and complicate the plot of a play or to narrate in a way that does not have to state truth nor fact within the play.
8. (biology) In developmental biology, the development of a feature from part of a formerly homogenous field of cells in response to a morphogen whose source determines the feature's position and extent.
9. (medicine) The process of inducing the birth process.
10. (obsolete) An introduction.