different between inception vs induction

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin incepti?, from inceptus, Perfect passive participle of incipi? (“I begin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?s?p??n/, /?n?s?p?n/
• Rhymes: -?p??n
• Hyphenation: in?cep?tion

Noun

inception (plural inceptions)

1. The creation or beginning of something; the establishment.

   From its inception, the agency has been helping people obtain and properly install car seats for children.

2. A layering, nesting, or recursion of something.

Coordinate terms

• conception

Derived terms

• -ception
• inception flashback

Related terms

• incept
• inceptual
• incipient

Translations

See also

• from the get-go

English

Etymology

From Old French induction, from Latin inducti?, from ind?c? (“I lead”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?d?k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

induction (countable and uncountable, plural inductions)

1. An act of inducting.

   • I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance.
   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.
   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 or 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. (biology) In developmental biology, the development of a feature from part of a formerly homogenous field of cells in response to a morphogen whose source determines the feature's position and extent.
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.

Quotations

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

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin inductio.

Noun

induction f (plural inductions)

1. induction

Further reading

• “induction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).