Word Meanings - INDUCTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by to. A brutish vice, Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve. Milton. 2. Tending to induce or cause. They may be . . . inductive of credibility. Sir M. Hale. 3. Leading to inferences;

Additional info about word: INDUCTIVE

1. Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by to. A brutish vice, Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve. Milton. 2. Tending to induce or cause. They may be . . . inductive of credibility. Sir M. Hale. 3. Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or using, induction; as, inductive reasoning. Operating by induction; as, an inductive electrical machine. Facilitating induction; susceptible of being acted upon by induction; as certain substances have a great inductive capacity. Inductive embarrassment , the retardation in signaling on an electric wire, produced by lateral induction. -- Inductive philosophy or method. See Philosophical induction, under Induction. -- Inductive sciences, those sciences which admit of, and employ, the inductive method, as astronomy, botany, chemistry, etc.

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