/
ɪnˈdjuːs/
v.
- succeed in persuading or leading (someone) to do something.
- bring about or give rise to.
▸produce (an electric charge or current or a magnetic state) by induction.
- Medicine bring on (childbirth or abortion) artificially, typically by the use of drugs.
- Logic derive by inductive reasoning.
Derivative
- inducer n.
- inducible adj.
Etymology
ME: from L. induct-, inducere ‘lead in’, or from Fr. enduire.