Induction
the act of inducting or oringing in; introduction; a bringing in or putting into an office.
In electricity, the action which electrified bodies exert at a distance on bodies in a natural state. An insulated conductor, charged with either kind of electricity, so acts on bodies in a natural state placed near it as to decompose the neutral fluid, attracting the opposite kind of electricity, and repelling the same kind.
In logic and philosophy, Whately (Logic, bk. iv., ch. i., §1) notes the ambiguity of this word, it being employed (a) to designate the process of investigation and collecting facts; and (b) the deducing of an inference from those facts. It is also loosely used in the sense of an inference from observed facts.
In magnetism, the action which magnetized bodies exert at a distance on bodies in a natural state.
In natural science, a consequence, inference, or general principle drawn from a number of particular facts or phenom- As Whewell says the inductive ena. philosophy ascends from particular facts to general principles, and then descends again from these general principles to particular applications.
Coefficient of magnetic induction is a coefficient expressing the ratio of the intensity of the induced magnetization to the intensity of the field.