(n.) The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.
(n.) An introduction or introductory scene, as to a play; a preface; a prologue.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A process of demonstration in which a general truth is gathered from an examination of particular cases, one of which is known to be true, the examination being so conducted that each case is made to depend on the preceding one; -- called also successive induction.
(n.) The property by which one body, having electrical or magnetic polarity, causes or induces it in another body without direct contact; an impress of electrical or magnetic force or condition from one body on another without actual contact.
Example Sentences:
(1) All rats were examined in the conscious, unrestrained state 12 wk after induction of diabetes or acidified saline (pH 4.5) injection.
(2) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
(3) Cellulase regulation appears to depend upon a complex relationship involving catabolite repression, inhibition, and induction.
(4) Injection of resistant mice with Salmonella typhimurium did not result in the induction of a population of macrophages that expressed I-A continuously.
(5) This induction is sensitive to actinomycin D but not to protein synthesis inhibitor puromycin, indicating an effect of estradiol at the transcriptional level, possibly mediated by the estrogen receptor.
(6) Here we show that this induction of AP-2 mRNA is at the level of transcription and is transient, reaching a peak 48-72 hr after the addition of RA and declining thereafter, even in the continuous presence of RA.
(7) Induction of labor, based upon only (1) a finding of meconium in the amniocentesis group or (2) a positive test in the OCT group, was nearly three times more frequent in the amniocentesis group.
(8) The effects of phenoxyacetic acid herbicides were investigated on the induction of chromosome aberrations in human peripheral lymphocyte cultures in vitro and in lymphocytes of exposed workers in vivo.
(9) During the 1st h after induction of the sporulation process, the rate of protein synthesis increased to two times the initial value.
(10) This activation demonstrated in humans confirms the pharmacological results of the interferon induction obtained with SL04 in vivo in mice and in vitro in human cell cultures.
(11) The induction of cells with two Y chromosomes by nitrogen mustard (NM) was examined.
(12) The influence of the inhibitors on the transferase induction was dose and time-dependent.
(13) Addition in the cultures of 4-deoxypyridoxine, a potent antagonist of vitamin B6 coenzymes, concurrently with the mitogen, inhibits the induction of serine hydroxymethyltransferase.
(14) Here we report direct measurements of protein kinase C (PKC) activity in uninduced ectoderm, and in neuroectoderm shortly after induction by the involuting mesoderm, in Xenopus laevis embryos.
(15) Glucocorticoids have been shown in in vitro systems to inhibit the release of arachidonic acid metabolites, namely prostaglandins (PGs) and leukotrienes, apparently, via the induction of a phospholipase A2 inhibitory protein, called lipocortin.
(16) The EEG became isoelectric within 20 s after induction of ischaemia.
(17) Our findings demonstrate that interleukin-2 (IL-2), but not interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) or interleukin-1 (IL-1), is able to inhibit the induction of T-cell unresponsiveness in a dose-dependent fashion.
(18) Characerization of further parameters such as relative susceptibility to tolerance induction and relative degree of specificity was not possible with the use of KLH as the antigen.
(19) When Zn injection was preceded by a Cd injection, induction as measured by MT-1 mRNA and MT concentrations were approximately additive in liver.
(20) We conclude that plasma LAP measurements have little value in monitoring ovulation induction therapy.
Tacit
Definition:
(a.) Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection.
Example Sentences:
(1) Last month following a visit to Islamabad Ben Emmerson QC, the UN's special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, said he had been given assurances that there was no "tacit consent by Pakistan to the use of drones on its territory".
(2) Salmond also made a tacit admission that the "Brown bounce" – the prime minister's success in rebuilding voters' confidence during the financial crisis – had been a factor.
(3) The reform was killed off last summer by Tory MPs acting, initially at least, with the tacit approval of David Cameron.
(4) Russia's strongman garners tacit support, and even some quiet plaudits, from some of the world's most important emerging powers, starting with China and India.
(5) If we remain silent, the racists will treat this as tacit endorsement – and history will damn us for it.
(6) Graphic: theguardian.com Senior special operations officials have cited the detentions policy inertia as contributing to the tacit preference for killing terrorism suspects instead of capturing them.
(7) Cameron: we can compromise with Russia to end Syrian war Read more Third, Putin appears to have succeeded in gaining tacit acceptance of the de facto situation in Ukraine.
(8) A tacit conspiracy builds up on both political extremes that is entirely to the detriment of women.
(9) In an age of economic crisis, the tacit assumption of the governing class is that political reform is superseded by the growing demand for security.
(10) While the reshuffle may be partly to appease fans who resent his position as a figurehead, it could also be seen as a tacit admission that Ashley got a big football decision horribly wrong last season, in deciding not to replace Alan Pardew and almost suffering relegation as a result.
(11) The purpose of the present study was to examine the tacit coordination in interdependent relationships between two persons.
(12) As part of the process of appointing a CEO, there would have been informal discussions with major shareholders to get their opinions and tacit approval.
(13) The US had previously signalled its tacit support for the military's actions by giving the go-ahead for the jets' delivery , and by avoiding terming Morsi's overthrow as a coup.
(14) In a tacit reference to Sarkozy's re-election ambitions for 2012, he said this should be done "without artificial electoral fever".
(15) In 1997, Labour and the Lib Dems came to an informal accord to limit their campaigning in some of each other’s target seats and tacitly encouraged anti-Tory tactical voting (in the Cheshire seat of Tatton, the two parties stood down to make way for the independent Martin Bell, who defeated the corrupt Tory MP Neil Hamilton).
(16) Having persuaded Murdoch that his version of Labour, which ditched the term socialist in favour of New, along with clause IV, was no threat to Murdoch’s global ambitions, Blair secured the tacit and even overt support of the Tory press.
(17) The very people Corbyn and Stein condemn at home for their racism, they tacitly endorse abroad.
(18) This policy change is a tacit admission of what Edward Snowden (and 2001 whistleblower William Binney before him) had been claiming, namely that the warrantless surveillance of US citizens by the NSA and other government agencies does, in fact, violate the constitution of the United States.
(19) Any such levity, however, is leavened by the tacit acknowledgment that existence is futile, and we are all just bags of flesh and bones whiling away the days before death and putrefaction sets in.
(20) But it remains to be seen if Netanyahu will risk further alienating Obama with tacit shows of support for Romney without being confident of a Republican victory.