<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>The act of inducing, bringing about, or causing: induction of the hypnotic state.</li><li>The act of inducting; introduction; initiation.</li><li>Formal installation in an office, benefice, or the like.</li><li>Logic: Any form of reasoning in which the conclusion, though supported by the premises, does not follow from them necessarily.</li><li>The process of estimating the validity of observations of part of a class of facts as evidence for a proposition about the whole class.</li><li>A conclusion reached by this process.</li><li>Mathematics: A method of proving a given property true for a set of numbers by proving it true for 1 and then true for an arbitrary positive integer by assuming the property true for all previous positive integers and applying the principle of mathematical induction.</li><li>A presentation or bringing forward, as of facts or evidence.</li><li>Electricity, Magnetism: The process by which a body having electric or magnetic properties produces magnetism, an electric charge, or an electromotive force in a neighboring body without contact.</li><li>Embryology: The process or principle by which one part of the embryo influences the differentiation of another part.</li><li>Biochemistry: The synthesis of an enzyme in response to an increased concentration of its substrate in the cell.</li><li>An introductory unit in literary work, especially in an early play; prelude or scene independent of the main performance but related to it.</li><li>Archaic: A preface.</li></ul>