- to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- to bring about, produce, or cause: That medicine will induce sleep.
- to produce (an electric current) by induction.
- to assert or establish (a proposition about a class of phenomena) on the basis of observations on a number of particular facts.
- to increase expression of (a gene) by inactivating a negative control system or activating a positive control system; derepress.
- to stimulate the synthesis of (a protein, especially an enzyme) by increasing gene transcription.
- to persuade or use influence on
- to cause or bring about
- to initiate or hasten (labour), as by administering a drug to stimulate uterine contractions
- to assert or establish (a general proposition, hypothesis, etc) by induction
- to produce (an electromotive force or electrical current) by induction
- to transmit (magnetism) by induction
