Thesaurus: inductive

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1. a. Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by to.
2. a. Tending to induce or cause.
3. a. Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or using, induction; as, inductive reasoning.
4. a. Operating by induction; as, an inductive electrical machine.
5. a. Facilitating induction; susceptible of being acted upon by induction; as certain substances have a great inductive capacity.
6. adj. arising from inductance
7. adj. of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion
8. adj. inducing or influencing; leading on
9. 1. Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by to. A brutish vice, Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve. Milton. 2. Tending to induce or cause. [R.] They may be . . . inductive of credibility. Sir M. Hale. 3. Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or using, induction; as, inductive reasoning. 4. (Physics) (a) Operating by induction; as, an inductive electrical machine. (b) Facilitating induction; susceptible of being acted upon by induction; as certain substances have a great inductive capacity. Inductive embarrassment (Physics), the retardation in signaling on an electric wire, produced by lateral induction. -- Inductive philosophy or method. See Philosophical induction, under Induction. -- Inductive sciences, those sciences which admit of, and employ, the inductive method, as astronomy, botany, chemistry, etc.
10. j:100 a. arising from inductance a. of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion s. inducing or influencing; leading on