meaning of induce
1. To lead in; to introduce.
2. To draw on; to overspread.
3. To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to move by persuasion or influence.
4. To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure.
5. To produce, or cause, by proximity without contact or transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body in an opposite electric or magnetic state.
6. To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; -- the opposite of deduce.
7. reason or establish by induction
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