induce /in-dūsˈ/

1. To draw on
2. To prevail on, make, cause, encourage (to do something)
3. To bring into being
4. To initiate or speed up (labour of childbirth) artificially, as by administering drugs (also intransitive verb) (medicine)
5. To cause, as an electric state, by mere proximity (physics)
6. To infer inductively (logic)
7. To bring in (obsolete)

To reason or draw inferences inductively

—See also induct and induction below

induceˈment noun

1. The act of inducing or that which induces
2. A means of persuasion
3. Incentive, motive
4. A statement of facts introducing other important facts (law)

inducˈer noun

1. Someone who, or that which, induces
2. An agent which increases the transcription of specific genes (biology)

induˈcible adjective

induced abortion see abortion under abort

induced current noun (elec)

A current set in action by the influence of the surrounding magnetic field, or by the variation of an adjacent current

induced radioactivity noun

Radioactivity induced in non-radioactive elements by neutrons in a nuclear reactor, or protons or deuterons in a cyclotron or linear accelerator

inducible enzyme noun (botany)

An enzyme produced only in response to an inducing agent, often its substrate

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