Induction vs Promotion - What's the difference?

induction | promotion |

As nouns the difference between induction and promotion

is that induction is an act of inducting while promotion is granting of a doctorate,.

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")

promotion

English

(wikipedia promotion)

Noun

(en noun)

An advancement in rank or position.

(marketing) Dissemination of positive information about a product, product line, brand, or company.

* 1995 , Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology (ISBN 079233471X), page 63:

By simple promotion and remotion, assisted by some flexure and extension, the distal spines of each would reach and scratch the substratum and, on remotion, sweep coarse particles posteriorly and dorsally.

* 2008 , John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology (ISBN 1402062427), volume 4, page 3326:

In other arthropods, promotion'-remotion of the leg is accomplished at other joints. For example, in spiders ' promotion -remotion occurs at the coxa-trochanter joint, insects utilize the body-coxa joint, and

Derived terms

* promotional