"inductive" meaning in English

See inductive in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ɪnˈdʌktɪv/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-inductive.wav Forms: more inductive [comparative], most inductive [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle French inductif, from Late Latin inductivus. Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|inductif}} Middle French inductif, {{der|en|LL.|inductivus}} Late Latin inductivus Head templates: {{en-adj}} inductive (comparative more inductive, superlative most inductive)
  1. (logic) Of, or relating to logical induction. Categories (topical): Logic Translations (logical induction): մակածական (makacakan) (Armenian), ինդուկտիվ (induktiv) (Armenian), индуктивен (induktiven) (Bulgarian), induktiivinen (Finnish), inductif (French), επαγωγικός (epagogikós) (Greek), induksi (Malay), induktif (Malay), индукти́вный (induktívnyj) (Russian), inductivo (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-inductive-en-adj-~-PTt5MA Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences Disambiguation of 'logical induction': 83 8 0 10
  2. (physics) Of, relating to, or arising from inductance. Categories (topical): Physics
    Sense id: en-inductive-en-adj-73Tu9RQW Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
  3. introductory or preparatory.
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  4. Influencing; tending to induce or cause.
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (ee63ee9 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.