induce
/ɪnˈdus/
verb
- To cause something to happen or exist.
- Stress can induce headaches in some people.
- The medicine can induce sleep within 30 minutes.
- The teacher's encouragement induced a love of reading in her students.
- To persuade or influence someone to do something.
- The advertisement tried to induce customers to buy the new product.
- She was induced by her friends to join the dance class.
- Nothing could induce him to change his mind.
- To bring on labor or childbirth by medical means.
- Some women choose to be induced for personal reasons.
- The doctor decided to induce labor because the baby was overdue.
- They had to induce her because of high blood pressure.
- To produce an electric current or magnetic state in a conductor by exposure to a changing magnetic field.
- This device induces a magnetic field in the metal.
- Moving a magnet near a wire can induce a current.
- The coil induces a voltage in the secondary circuit.
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