1 [count] a : the formal act or process of placing someone into a new job, position, government office, etc.
▪ Many people attended the bishop's induction. ▪ The induction ceremony was held at a banquet hall.
b US : the formal act of making someone a member of the military
▪ the registration and induction of draftees 2 [noncount] medical : the act of giving a pregnant woman special drugs so that she will give birth
▪ induction of labor 3 [noncount] technical : a kind of reasoning that uses particular examples in order to reach a general conclusion about something 4 [noncount] technical : the process by which an electric current, an electric charge, or magnetism is produced in objects by being close to an electric or magnetic field