Word Meanings - INDUCTIVELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By induction or inference.

INDUCTION
The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal; also, the result or inference so reached. Induction is an inference drawn from all the particulars. Sir W. Hamilton.
INDUCTIONAL
Pertaining to, or proceeding by, induction; inductive.
INDUCTION GENERATOR
A machine built as an induction motor and driven above synchronous speed, thus acting as an alternating-current generator; - - called also asynchronous generator. Below synchronism the machine takes in electrical energy and acts as an induction
INDUCTION MOTOR
A type of alternating-current motor comprising two wound members, one stationary, called the stator, and the other rotating, called the rotor, these two members corresponding to a certain extent to the field and armature of a direct-current motor.
INFERENCE
1. The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction. Though it may chance to be right in the conclusions, it is yet unjust and mistaken in the method of inference. Glanvill. 2. That which inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another
SELF-INDUCTION
Induction in a circuit due to the action of one portion of a current upon an adjacent portion during periods of varying current strength. The nature of the induction is such as to oppose the action which produces it.
SUPERINDUCTION
The act of superinducing, or the state of being superinduced. South.