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in⋅duct

  [in-duhkt]
–verb (used with object)
1. to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., esp. with formal ceremonies: The committee inducted her as president.
2. to introduce, esp. to something requiring special knowledge or experience; initiate (usually fol. by to or into): They inducted him into the mystic rites of the order.
3. to take (a draftee) into military service; draft.
4. to bring in as a member: to induct a person into a new profession.
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Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L inductus ptp. of indūcere, equiv. to induc- (see induce ) + -tus ptp. suffix
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in·duct   (ĭn-dŭkt')   
tr.v.   in·duct·ed, in·duct·ing, in·ducts

  1. To place ceremoniously or formally in an office or a position; install: a service to induct the new president of the university.

    1. To admit as a member; receive.

    2. To admit to military service: a draftee waiting to be inducted into the army.

    3. To introduce, as to new experience or knowledge; initiate: She was inducted into the ways of the legal profession.

  3. Physics To induce.


[Middle English inducten, from Latin indūcere, induct-; see induce.]
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Word Origin & History

induct 
c.1378, from L. inductus, pp. of inducere "to lead" (see induce). Originally of church offices; sense of "bring into military service" is 1934 in Amer.Eng. Induction as a term of logic (c.1440) is from L. inductio, used by Cicero to translate Gk. epagoge "leading to" in Aristotle; as a term of science, c.1800. Induction starts with known instances and arrives at generalizations; deduction starts from the general principal and arrives at some individual fact.
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Medical Dictionary

induct in·duct (ĭn-dŭkt')
v. in·duct·ed, in·duct·ing, in·ducts
To produce an electric current or a magnetic charge by induction.

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