INDUCTION

induction. 1. The act or process of initiating <the induction of three new members into the legal fraternity>.2. The act or process of reasoning from specific instances to general propositions <after looking at several examples, the group reasoned by induction that it is a very poor practice to begin a new paragraph by abruptly bringing up a new case>. Cf. DEDUCTION(4).

[Blacks Law 8th]