in|duce

in|duce
in|duce «ihn DOOS, -DYOO», transitive verb, -duced, -duc|ing.
1. to lead on; influence; persuade: »

Advertisements induce people to buy. Pray what could induce him to commit so rash an action? (Oliver Goldsmith).

 SYNONYM(S): incite, impel.
2. to bring about; cause: »

The doctor says that his medicine will induce sleep. Harsh discipline induced discontent. Their purpose is not to induce thought but to prevent it (John Kenneth Galbraith).

3. a) to produce (an electric current, electric charge, or magnetic change) without direct contact. b) to bring about (radioactivity) in an element artificially by bombardment with particles.
4. to infer by reasoning from particular facts to a general rule or principle or from the known to the unknown; derive as an induction.
╂[< Latin indūcere introduce; imply, persuade < in- in + dūcere to lead]

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