induction

intégration, initiation

Processus d’accueil dans une organisation, un rôle ou une activité, souvent accompagné d’une formation initiale.

En anglais simple : The process of bringing someone into an organization, role, or activity, often with initial training.

• New staff attend an induction.
• The induction course explains how the company works.
• His induction into the team took several days.

Comment l'utiliser : induction into something (Her induction into the organization began with a training session.)

Synonymes : introduction, initiation

Expressions courantes : staff induction, induction course, induction into something

intronisation, investiture

Cérémonie qui attribue officiellement une fonction ou accueille quelqu’un dans un groupe ou dans l’armée.

En anglais simple : A ceremony that officially gives someone a position or admits them into a group or military service.

• Her induction ceremony was brief.
• His family attended his induction into office.
• The recruits waited for their formal induction into military service.

Comment l'utiliser : induction into something (His induction into the society took place on Friday.)

Synonymes : initiation, admission, installation

Expressions courantes : induction ceremony, induction into something, military induction

induction électromagnétique

Production d’électricité grâce à un champ magnétique qui varie.

En anglais simple : The production of electricity by a changing magnetic field.

• The generator uses induction.
• Moving the magnet caused induction in the wire.
• Students measured the current produced by electromagnetic induction.

Synonymes : electromagnetic induction

Expressions courantes : electromagnetic induction, induction coil, induction current

déclenchement de l’accouchement

Utilisation de médicaments ou d’autres moyens médicaux pour faire commencer l’accouchement.

En anglais simple : The use of medicine or other medical methods to make childbirth start.

• Her induction began on Monday.
• The midwife explained what would happen during induction.
• They discussed whether induction was needed for the overdue baby.

Comment l'utiliser : induction of labour (The doctor discussed induction of labour with her.)

Synonymes : labor induction

Expressions courantes : induction of labour, planned induction, labor induction

induction

Méthode qui consiste à tirer une conclusion générale à partir de plusieurs exemples particuliers.

En anglais simple : A way of reaching a general conclusion by looking at several particular examples.

• The argument relies on induction.
• She used induction to move from observations to a general claim.
• Induction does not guarantee that a conclusion is true.

Comment l'utiliser : induction from something (Induction from observed cases can suggest a general rule.)

Synonymes : inductive reasoning

Contraires : deduction

Expressions courantes : reasoning by induction, use induction, induction from something

récurrence, induction mathématique

Preuve pour un premier nombre, puis démonstration que la validité pour un nombre entraîne celle pour le suivant.

En anglais simple : A proof showing a statement holds first for one number, then for each next number in turn.

• We proved it by induction.
• The induction step uses the result for the previous integer.
• Have you checked the base case before applying mathematical induction?

Synonymes : mathematical induction

Expressions courantes : mathematical induction, proof by induction, induction step