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Definition of Inductive

1. Adjective. Arising from inductance. "Inductive reactance"

2. Adjective. Of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion. "Inductive reasoning"

3. Adjective. Inducing or influencing; leading on. "Inductive to the sin of Eve"

Definition of Inductive

1. a. Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by to.

Definition of Inductive

1. Adjective. (logic) of, or relating to logical induction ¹

2. Adjective. (physics) of, relating to, or arising from induction or inductance ¹

3. Adjective. introductory or preparatory ¹

4. Adjective. influencing ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inductive

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Inductive

1. 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. 4. 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. Origin: LL. Inductivus: cf. F. Inductif. See Induce. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inductive

induction chemotherapy induction coil induction generator induction heater induction heating induction loop induction loops induction motor induction of labor induction period

induction programme induction therapy inductional inductionism inductions inductive (current term) inductive current drive inductive definition inductive effect inductive reasoning

inductive resistance inductive voltage divider inductively inductiveness inductivism inductivity inductometer inductometers inductor inductoria

Literary usage of Inductive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Theory and Calculation of Alternating Current Phenomena by Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1900)
"With inductive load, equation (11), the inductive reactance, x0, has still further to be decreased by the inductive reactance of the load, x. is the value ..."

2. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1919)
"inductive INTERFERENCE The inductive interference situation has been ... This has led to the issuance of inductive interference rules in modified form as ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1917)
"The wave shapes of the voltages and currents in the power circuits have a very important effect in the amount of inductive interference in telephone ..."

4. Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist: A Popular Illustration of the Principles by Richard Green Moulton (1893)
"As botany deals inductively with the phenomena of vegetable life and traces the laws underlying them, as economy reviews and systematises on inductive ..."

5. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"(2) The method of procedure known as inductive reasoning, which makes large or exclusive use of inductive inference. See BACONIAN METHOD, and SCIENTIFIC ..."

6. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"On Specific inductive Capacity. 83 a.] In the preceding investigation of ... Hence these bodies are said to have a greater specific inductive capacity than ..."

7. The Teaching of Mathematics in the Elementary and the Secondary School by Jacob William Albert Young (1906)
"Not only is the plan for the work inductive, but the theorems or ... For the learner, the inductive method of approach is as a rule decidedly the best. ..."

8. Report of the Annual Meeting (1880)
"J. LODGE, Mr. JEH GORDON, and Mr. J. PERRY, appointed for the purpose of accurately measuring the specific inductive capacity of a good Sprengel Vacuum, ..."

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