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Induction vs Conclusion - What's the difference?

induction | conclusion |

As nouns the difference between induction and conclusion

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

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")

    conclusion

    English

    (wikipedia conclusion)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The end, finish, close or last part of something.
  • * Prescott
    • A flourish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest.
  • The outcome or result of a process or act.
  • A decision reached after careful thought.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
    The board has come to the conclusion that the proposed takeover would not be in the interest of our shareholders.
  • *
    • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions' are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound ' conclusions . Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you geth
  • (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
  • * Addison
    • He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion .
  • (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating.
  • (legal) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
  • (legal) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
    • (Wharton)

    Related terms

    * conclude * conclusive

    Antonyms

    * (end) beginning, initiation, start

    Coordinate terms

    * (in logic) premise