inductionとは意味・読み方・使い方

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• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdʌkʃən/
• 韻: -ʌkʃən

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induction (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 inductions)

1. An act of inducting.
   • 1612–1613, Nathan Field; John Fletcher; Philip Massinger, “The Honest Mans Fortune”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972, Act II, scene i:

     I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance.

   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:

     These promises are fair, the parties sure, / And our induction full of prosperous hope.

   1. A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
   2. The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
2. An act of inducing.
   • 2002, Gilbert S. Banker & Christopher T. Rhodes, Modern Pharmaceutics, 4th edition, Informa Health Care, →ISBN, page 699:

     One of the first examples of the immunogenicity of recombinantly derived antibodies was with murine anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (OKT3) used in the induction of immunosupression after organ transplantation.

   1. (physics) Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
   2. (logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
   3. (mathematics) A method of proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific case (often an integer; usually 0 または 1) and showing that, if it is true for one case then it must be true for the next.
   4. (theater) Use of rumors to twist and complicate the plot of a play or to narrate in a way that does not have to state truth nor fact within the play.
   5. (embryology) Given a group of cells that emits or displays a substance, the influence of this substance on the fate of a second group of cells
   6. (mechanical engineering) The delivery of air to the cylinders of an internal combustion piston engine.
3. (medicine) The process of inducing the birth process.
4. (obsolete) An introduction.
   • 1619, Philip Massinger and Nathan Field, The Fatal Dowry

     This is but an induction: I'lldraw / The curtains of the tragedy hereafter.

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• For quotations using this term, see Citations:induction.

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