induce

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

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