Induction, Inducible or Inductive may refer to:

Biology and medicine

* Labor induction (birth/pregnancy) *

Induction chemotherapy Induction chemotherapy is the first-line treatment of cancer with a chemotherapeutic drug. The goal of induction chemotherapy is to cure the cancer. It may be contrasted with neoadjuvant therapy, with consolidation chemotherapy (intended to k ...

, in medicine * Induced stem cells, stem cells derived from somatic, reproductive, pluripotent or other cell types by deliberate epigenetic reprogramming *

Cellular differentiation Cellular differentiation is the process in which a stem cell alters from one type to a differentiated one. Usually, the cell changes to a more specialized type. Differentiation happens multiple times during the development of a multicellular ...

, the process where a cell changes from one cell type to another * Enzyme induction and inhibition, a process in which a molecule induces the expression of an enzyme * Morphogenesis, the biological process that causes an organism to develop its shape *

Regulation of gene expression Regulation of gene expression, or gene regulation, includes a wide range of mechanisms that are used by cells to increase or decrease the production of specific gene products (protein or RNA). Sophisticated programs of gene expression are wide ...

, the means by which a gene product is either induced or inhibited

Chemistry

* Induction period, the time interval between cause and measurable effect * Inductive cleavage, in organic chemistry * Inductive effect, the redistribution of electron density through molecular sigma bonds *

Asymmetric induction In stereochemistry, asymmetric induction (also enantioinduction) describes the preferential formation in a chemical reaction of one enantiomer or diastereoisomer over the other as a result of the influence of a chiral feature present in the sub ...

, the formation of one specific stereoisomer in the presence of a nearby chiral center

Computing

* Grammar induction, in computing *

Inductive bias The inductive bias (also known as learning bias) of a learning algorithm is the set of assumptions that the learner uses to predict outputs of given inputs that it has not encountered. In machine learning, one aims to construct algorithms that a ...

, in computing * Inductive probability, in computing * Inductive programming, in computing * Rule induction, in computing * Word-sense induction, in computing

Mathematics

* Backward induction in game theory and economics * Induced representation, in representation theory * Mathematical induction, a method of proof in the field of mathematics *

Parabolic induction In mathematics, parabolic induction is a method of constructing representations of a reductive group from representations of its parabolic subgroups. If ''G'' is a reductive algebraic group and P=MAN is the Langlands decomposition of a parabolic ...

, a method of constructing group representations * Statistical induction, also known as statistical inference * Strong induction, or complete induction, a variant of mathematical induction * Structural induction, a generalization of mathematical induction * Transfinite induction, a kind of mathematical induction ** Epsilon-induction, a kind of transfinite induction

Philosophy

Inductive reasoning Inductive reasoning is a method of reasoning in which a general principle is derived from a body of observations. It consists of making broad generalizations based on specific observations. Inductive reasoning is distinct from ''deductive'' re ...

, in logic, inferences from particular cases to the general case

Physics

Electromagnetic induction Electromagnetic or magnetic induction is the production of an electromotive force (emf) across an electrical conductor in a changing magnetic field. Michael Faraday is generally credited with the discovery of induction in 1831, and James Clerk ...

in physics and engineering * Electrostatic induction in physics and engineering * Forced induction, with combustion engines

Other uses

* Induction (play), an opening scene in a play * Induction (teachers), a stage in teacher training * Inductive reasoning aptitude, an aptitude or personality characteristic * Collective Induction, in psychology * Hypnotic induction, process to establish the state required for hypnosis * Formal admission into a learned society or

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