inductive

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=duc=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

inductive, a. [LL. inductivus: cf. F. inductif. See Induce.].

•  Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by to.  [1913 Webster]

  "A brutish vice,
  Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve."  [1913 Webster]
•  Tending to induce or cause.  [1913 Webster]

  "They may be . . . inductive of credibility."  [1913 Webster]
•  Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or using, induction; as, inductive reasoning.  [1913 Webster]
•  Operating by induction; as, an inductive electrical machine.  [1913 Webster]

Inductive embarrassment (Physics), the retardation in signaling on an electric wire, produced by lateral induction. -- Inductive philosophy or Inductive method. See Philosophical induction, under Induction. -- Inductive sciences, those sciences which admit of, and employ, the inductive method, as astronomy, botany, chemistry, etc.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inductive, adj.
1 (of reasoning etc.) of or based on induction.
2 of electric or magnetic induction.

Derivative

inductively adv. inductiveness n.

Etymology

LL inductivus (as INDUCE)

THESAURUS

inductive

Baconian, a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, analytic, categorical, conditional, deductive, dialectic, discursive, enthymematic, epagogic, hypothetical, inferential, introductory, maieutic, prefatory, prelim, preludial, prelusive, preparative, preparatory, proemial, soritical, syllogistic, synthetic