induce
- Verb. (transitive) to lead by persuasion or influence; incite.
- Verb. (transitive) to cause, bring about, lead to.
- Verb. (physics) to cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
- Verb. (transitive, logic) to infer by induction.
- Verb. (transitive, obsolete) to lead in, bring in, introduce.
- Verb. (transitive, obsolete) to draw on, place upon.
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