Induction
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Induction may refer to:
In popular culture:
- Induction (play) is an opening scene in a play, notably used in early English plays
- Induction can refer to an initiation rite, at times in the form of hazing
- Induction programme, the process used within many businesses to welcome new employees to the company and prepare them for their new role
- Orientation week, an induction programme for new students at Universities
In biology:
- Induction (biology) is the initiation or cause of a change or process in developmental biology
- Enzyme induction and inhibition is a process in which a molecule (e.g. a drug) induces (i.e. initiates or enhances) or inhibits the expression of an enzyme
- Induction (birth), induction of childbirth
In psychology:
- The act of inducing a state of hypnosis in a subject is called an induction, as is a standard method of doing so (eg: the "eye fixation" induction)
- Post Induction Therapy asserts that childhood trauma, including child abuse and neglect, is the origin of developmental immaturity.
- Induction period related to the Atkins Nutritional Approach
- Inductive reasoning aptitude is an aptitude or personality characteristic
In philosophy, logic, and computer science:
- Inductive reasoning used in science and the scientific method
- Rhetorical induction
- Backward induction in game theory and economics
- Concept learning is the induction of a concept (category) from observations
- Theoretical foundations of induction, see:
- Computational learning theory
- Version Space
- Statistical Learning Theory
- PAC Learning
- Algorithmic Information Theory.
- Concept learning, for citations to foundational work by Watanabe, Solomonoff, Rendell, etc.
In mathematics:
- Mathematical induction, a method of proof in the field of mathematics
- Strong induction, or Complete induction, a variant of mathematical induction
- Transfinite induction, a kind of mathematical induction
- ∈-induction, a kind of transfinite induction
- Structural induction, a generalization of mathematical induction
- Statistical induction is the same as inferential statistics
In physics:
- Electromagnetic induction in physics and engineering
- *Magnetic induction, or magnetic field
- Electrostatic induction
- Radio frequency induction
- Induction heating
- Induction cooker uses induction heating for cooking.
- Induction sealing or "cap sealing"
- With combustion engines, forced induction is the use of a gas compressor added to the air intake
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