Definition of inducts in English

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Verb inducts, inducting, inducted
induct - place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy"
		invest, seat
		instal, install set up for use; "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink"
induct - introduce or initiate; "The young geisha was inducted into the ways of her profession"
		teach, instruct, learn accustom gradually to some action or attitude; "The child is taught to obey her parents"
induct - admit as a member; "We were inducted into the honor society"
		invite, receive, take in ask someone in a friendly way to do something
induct - accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite; "African men are initiated when they reach puberty"
		initiate
		let in, include, admit add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category; "We must include this chemical element in the group"
induct - produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes
		induce
		give rise, bring about, produce cause to move into the opposite direction; "they brought about the boat when they saw a storm approaching"
		natural philosophy, physics the science of matter and energy and their interactions; "his favorite subject was physics"

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induct (Verb)
To formally or ceremoniously install in an office, position, et cetera.
induct (Verb)
To introduce into particularly if certain knowledge or experience is required, such as ritual adulthood or cults.
induct (Verb)
To draft into military service.
induct (Verb)
To bring in as a member.

induct (v. t.)
To bring in; to introduce; to usher in.
induct (v. t.)
To introduce, as to a benefice or office; to put in actual possession of the temporal rights of an ecclesiastical living, or of any other office, with the customary forms and ceremonies.

induct
in-dukt′, v.t. to introduce: to put in possession, as of a benefice.—adj. Induc′tile, that cannot be drawn out into wire or threads.—ns. Inductil′ity; Induc′tion, introduction to an office, especially of a clergyman: an introduction, a prelude independent of the main work, but giving some notion of its aim and meaning: the act or process of reasoning from particular cases to general conclusions: (physics) the production by one body of an opposite electric state in another by proximity.—adjs. Induc′tional, Induc′tive.—n. Induc′tion-coil, an electrical machine consisting of two coils of wire, in which every variation of the primary or inner current induces a current in the outer or secondary circuit.—adv. Induc′tively.—n. Induc′tor.—Induction by simple enumeration, logical induction by enumeration of all the cases singly; Inductive philosophy, Bacon's name for science founded on induction or observation; Inductive reasoning, opp. to Deductive reasoning (see Deductive); Inductive science, any special branch of science founded on positive and observable fact. [See Induce.]