Induction

(in-duk’ ’ -shun) [inducere, to lead in]. I. The act of bringing on. 2. The proce of drawing general conclusions from special facts. 3. The production of electricity or magnetism in a body by proximity to another body, which is electrified or magnetized, but not in direct contact with it. I. balance, an instrument used for detecting the presence of metallic bodies by the electric disturbance which they cause. I. -coil, a wire wound around a bobbin, used for conducting a galvanic current, by means of which electricity is induced in a second coil. 332