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Meaning:

Noun:

  • a formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service
  • 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.
  • logic the derivation of general principles from specific instances
  • mathematics A general proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific integer (for example) and showing that, if it is true for one integer then it must be true for the next.
  • obsolete an introduction
  • physics the generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field
  • the act of inducing childbirth
  • the act of inducting
  • theatre The 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.

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