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Addition vs Induction - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between addition and induction

is that addition is addition while induction is an act of inducting.

addition

English

(wikipedia addition)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of adding anything.
    • The addition of five more items to the agenda will make the meeting unbearably long.
  • Anything that is added.
  • (uncountable) The arithmetic operation of adding.
  • (music) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
  • (legal) A title annexed to a person's name to identify him or her more precisely, as in "John Doe, Esq'.", "Robert Dale, '''Mason'''", "Thomas Way, ' of New York ".
  • (heraldry) Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honour; opposed to abatement.

    • See also

    * addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total) * subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference) * multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product) * division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

    Synonyms

    * (act of adding) adding, annexation, inclusion * (thing added) extra

    Antonyms

    * reduction

    Related terms

    * add * adder

    See also

    * plus sign ()

    References

    * ----

    induction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of inducting.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • These promises are fair, the parties sure, / And our induction full of prosperous hope.
  • # A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
  • An act of inducing.
  • *
  • # (physics) Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
  • # (logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
  • # (mathematics) A method of proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific case (often an integer; usually 0 or 1) and showing that, if it is true for one case then it must be true for the next.
  • # (theater) Use of rumors to twist and complicate the plot of a play or to narrate in a way that does not have to state truth nor fact within the play.
  • # (biology) In developmental biology, the development of a feature from part of a formerly homogenous field of cells in response to a morphogen whose source determines the feature's position and extent.
  • (lb) The process of inducing the birth process.
  • (obsolete) An introduction.
  • * Massinger
    • This is but an induction : I will daw / The curtains of the tragedy hereafter.

    Derived terms

    * induction axiom * induction circuit * induction coil * induction cooker * induction cooking * induction cut * induction flowmeter * induction furnace * induction heating * induction loop * induction motor * induction period * induction programme * induction range * induction therapy * induction training * induction variable * induction welding * mathematical induction

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "induction")