induction

noun12

1. •
   An act of inducting.

   • I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance. — 1612
2. •
   A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.

   • [Strom] Thurmond also condemned [Bayard] Rustin for having refusing ^([sic]) military induction as a conscientious objector. — 2006
3. •
   The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
4. •
   An act of inducing.
5. •
   Given a group of cells that emits or displays a substance, the influence of this substance on the fate of a second group of cells.
6. •
   The process of inducing labour for the childbirth process.
7. •
   Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
8. •
   Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
9. •
   A method of proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific case (often an integer; usually 0 or 1) and showing that, if it is true for one case then it must be true for the next.
10. •
    The delivery of air to the cylinders of an internal combustion piston engine.
11. •
    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.
12. •
    (no longer used) An introduction.

    • This is but an induction: I'lldraw / The curtains of the tragedy hereafter. — 1619