1. A battery-operated apparatus containing induction coils used for producing a continuous pulsing electric current or a single pulse of current; for example, for physiological or pharmacological experiments.
2. The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.
3. The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal; also, the result or inference so reached; an inference drawn from all the particulars.
4. The introduction of a clergyman into a benefice, or of an official into a office, with appropriate acts or ceremonies; the giving actual possession of an ecclesiastical living or its temporalities.