Synonyms:
initiation, induction, installation
Meaning: a formal entry into an organization or position or office; "his initiation into the club"; "he was ordered to report for induction into the army"; "he gave a speech as part of his installation into the hall of fame"
Synonyms:
induction, inductance
Meaning: an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current
Synonyms:
generalization, generalisation, induction, inductive_reasoning
Meaning: reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
Usage examples
It is taken to be an established fact in nature, a valid induction from man's knowledge of natural order.
Some of these principles have even greater evidence than the principle of induction, and the knowledge of them has the same degree of certainty as the knowledge of the existence of sense-data.
In regard to the former, deduction is the right mode of argument, whereas in regard to the latter, induction is always theoretically preferable, and warrants a greater confidence in the truth of our conclusion, because all empirical generalizations are more uncertain than the instances of them.