adjective
- of, relating to, or involving electrical induction or magnetic induction.
- operating by induction: an inductive machine.
- of, relating to, or employing logical induction: inductive reasoning.
- Embryology. eliciting the action of an embryonic inducer.
- serving to induce; leading or influencing (usually followed by to).
- introductory.
adjective
- relating to, involving, or operated by electrical or magnetic inductionan inductive reactance
- logic maths of, relating to, or using inductioninductive reasoning
- serving to induce or cause
- a rare word for introductory
- biology producing a reaction within an organism, esp induction in embryonic tissue
early 15c., from Old French inductif or directly from Late Latin inductivus, from induct-, past participle stem of inducere (see induce). As a term in logic, from 1764.