induced
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
induce /ɪnˈdjuːs/
▶verb
- 1 succeed in persuading or leading (someone) to do something.
- 2 bring about or give rise to.
■ produce (an electric charge or current or a magnetic state) by induction.
- 3 Medicine bring on (childbirth or abortion) artificially, typically by the use of drugs.
- 4 Logic derive by inductive reasoning.
– derivatives
inducer noun,
inducible adjective.
inducer noun,
inducible adjective.
– origin ME: from L. induct-, inducere ‘lead in’, or from Fr. enduire.
'induced' also found in these Oxford entries:
allosteric
- amatory
- anaesthesia
- armature
- bulimia
- claudication
- cold sweat
- dingbat
- discharge tube
- eddy current
- immunosuppression
- maxwell
- nitrogen narcosis
- palaeomagnetism
- self-induced
- spell
- thrombolysis
- trance
- trip
- twilight sleep
- undue influence
