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# induction

«induction» in Mova's school dictionary: **a meeting or short course that introduces new people to a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an induction, inductions; induction — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An induction is a meeting or short course that introduces new people to a job, school or club. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/induction/#m1)

2) In science, induction is the making of electricity or magnetism in an object by moving a magnet or another current near it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/induction/#m2)

3) In logic and maths, induction is reaching a general rule from many examples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/induction/#m3)

4) In medicine, induction means starting something, like the birth of a baby, with help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/induction/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday school life, new pupils and staff have an induction day to learn the rules and the building. In science, electromagnetic induction is how generators and some electric cookers (induction hobs) and phone chargers work. In maths, after seeing a pattern many times you guess a rule, which you must then check. Phrases: induction day, induction hob, electromagnetic induction.

### examples

- New pupils have an induction day before they start school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/induction/#x1)
- An induction hob heats the pan using magnetism. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/induction/#x2)
- A generator makes electricity by induction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/induction/#x3)
- My mum had a week of induction at her new job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/induction/#x4)
- Moving a magnet through a coil of wire makes a current by induction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/induction/#x5)
- The new members got an induction to the swimming club. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/induction/#x6)

### note

Countable for the meeting (an induction), uncountable for the science idea. Verb: induce (in medicine and science), «induct» (bring someone in). Induction hobs only work with pans that a magnet sticks to. In maths, a rule found by induction from examples may still have exceptions until it is proven.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «induction» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/induction/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.