Induced (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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adjective
  1. brought about, produced, or caused, especially artificially (often used in combination):Medical intervention in childbirth has become the norm, with hospitals relying on epidurals, C-sections, and induced labor.The field expedition to the Greenland Sea will study climate-induced changes in the marine food web.
  2. (of an electric current) produced by induction: As a coil on a pendulum passes between the poles of an electromagnet, the induced current causes the small bulb to light up.
  3. (of a gene) having increased expression as a result of the inactivation of a negative control system or the activation of a positive control system (often used in combination): The induced genes in the transgenic variety were of unknown function.Our focus is on the serum-induced genes cloned from fibroblasts.
  4. noting or relating to a protein, especially an enzyme, whose synthesis has been stimulated by increased gene transcription (often used in combination): These induced proteins are unlikely to affect cellular DNA repair directly.We can now speculate that the heat-induced proteins play an important role in gastric cell protection.
verb
  1. the simple past tense and past participle of induce.
Induced (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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