Induction vs Inductance - What's the difference?
induction | inductance |
An act of inducting.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Shakespeare
# A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
An act of inducing.
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# (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
The property of an electric circuit by which a voltage is induced in it by a changing magnetic field.
:The power cable itself has enough inductance to disrupt the digital signal of the video output cable, due to poor shielding.
The quantity of the resulting electromagnetic flux divided by the current that produces it, measured in henries (SI symbol: H .)
:What is the inductance of that power supply's main inductor?
As nouns the difference between induction and inductance
is that induction is an act of inducting while inductance is the property of an electric circuit by which a voltage is induced in it by a changing magnetic field.induction
English
Noun
(en noun)- I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance.
- These promises are fair, the parties sure, / And our induction full of prosperous hope.
- This is but an induction : I will daw / The curtains of the tragedy hereafter.