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What does the word induction mean?

• 1. Production or causation. 2. The production of an electric current or magnet in a body by electricity or magnetism in another body in close proximity to it. 3. A modification imposed upon the offspring by the action of environment on the germ cells of one or both parents. 4. Therapeutic suggestion, neuroinduction.

• [ Latin] The act of bringing on; as I. of labor.

• [ Latin] The production of electrical or magnetic phenomena in a body by the action of electricity or magnetism resident in a body adjacent, but not contiguous. A body charged with positive or negative static electricity will by i. ( Static i.) produce in an adjacent body electricity of the opposite kind( negative or positive). A galvanic current passing through a coil( I. coil) produces by i. in an adjacent parallel coil a secondary or induced current; and also by i. renders a neighboring bar of sort iron magnetic. A magnet brought near a bar of soft iron renders the latter magnetic by i. ( Magnetic i.), and produces alternating electric currents in a coil of wire revolved before it.

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