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Induction vs Donative - What's the difference?

induction | donative |

As nouns the difference between induction and donative

is that induction is an act of inducting while donative is a gift; a largess; a gratuity.

As an adjective donative is

of, pertaining to, or being a donation.

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

    donative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or being a donation
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gift; a largess; a gratuity.
  • * Dryden
  • The Romans were entertained with shows and donatives .
  • (ecclesiastical law) A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders.