What is inductance?

Answer 1

What sort of induction? There are many uses of this word in different maths, sciences and even medical terminology. Webster's Online Dictionary says that this means: 1 a : the act or process of inducting (as into office) b : an initial experience : INITIATION c : the formality by which a civilian is inducted into military service 2 a (1) : inference of a generalized conclusion from particular instances -- compare DEDUCTION 2a (2) : a conclusion arrived at by induction b : mathematical demonstration of the validity of a law concerning all the positive integers by proving that it holds for the integer 1 and that if it holds for an arbitrarily chosen positive integer k it must hold for the integer k+1 -- called also mathematical induction 3 : a preface, prologue, or introductory scene especially of an early English play 4 a : the act of bringing forward or adducing (as facts or particulars) b : the act of causing or bringing on or about c : the process by which an electrical conductor becomes electrified when near a charged body, by which a magnetizable body becomes magnetized when in a magnetic field or in the magnetic flux set up by a magnetomotive force, or by which an electromotive force is produced in a circuit by varying the magnetic field linked with the circuit d : the inspiration of the fuel-air charge from the carburetor into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine e : the sum of the processes by which the fate of embryonic cells is determined and morphogenetic differentiation brought about Induction has more than one meaning. LOGICAL induction is the process of reasoning from all the parts separately to the whole which they constitute, or into which they may be united collectively; it's a fair description of the scientific method. RITUAL induction is the act of initiating someone into a club or society. MEDICAL/BIOLOGICAL induction is the process of forcing an event or process to begin, such as "inducing labor." ELECTRICAL induction is the creation of an electrical current in a circuit by varying magnetic force. Induction heating is a process that relies on electrical induction to quickly generate consistent, even heat.

Answer 2

What sort of induction? There are many uses of this word in different maths, sciences and even medical terminology. Webster's Online Dictionary says that this means: 1 a : the act or process of inducting (as into office) b : an initial experience : INITIATION c : the formality by which a civilian is inducted into military service 2 a (1) : inference of a generalized conclusion from particular instances -- compare DEDUCTION 2a (2) : a conclusion arrived at by induction b : mathematical demonstration of the validity of a law concerning all the positive integers by proving that it holds for the integer 1 and that if it holds for an arbitrarily chosen positive integer k it must hold for the integer k+1 -- called also mathematical induction 3 : a preface, prologue, or introductory scene especially of an early English play 4 a : the act of bringing forward or adducing (as facts or particulars) b : the act of causing or bringing on or about c : the process by which an electrical conductor becomes electrified when near a charged body, by which a magnetizable body becomes magnetized when in a magnetic field or in the magnetic flux set up by a magnetomotive force, or by which an electromotive force is produced in a circuit by varying the magnetic field linked with the circuit d : the inspiration of the fuel-air charge from the carburetor into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine e : the sum of the processes by which the fate of embryonic cells is determined and morphogenetic differentiation brought about Induction has more than one meaning. LOGICAL induction is the process of reasoning from all the parts separately to the whole which they constitute, or into which they may be united collectively; it's a fair description of the scientific method. RITUAL induction is the act of initiating someone into a club or society. MEDICAL/BIOLOGICAL induction is the process of forcing an event or process to begin, such as "inducing labor." ELECTRICAL induction is the creation of an electrical current in a circuit by varying magnetic force. Induction heating is a process that relies on electrical induction to quickly generate consistent, even heat.

Answer 3

"Inductive" can mean two things: one, it can mean something that is characterized by the influence of general laws from particular instances (AKA, logical), and two, caused by electromagnetic induction.

Answer 4

Induction is the transfer of electric charge without contact between objects.