inductive

From Middle French inductif, from Late Latin inductivus.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdʌktɪv/

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inductive (comparative more inductive, superlative most inductive)

1. (logic) Of, or relating to logical induction, by generalizing a universal claim or principle from the observed particular instances.
2. (physics) Of, relating to, or arising from inductance. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. introductory or preparatory. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. Influencing; tending to induce or cause.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     A brutish vice, / Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve.

   • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:

     They may be […] inductive of credibility.

• “inductive”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “inductive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.dyk.tiv/

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inductive

1. feminine singular of inductif

From inductīvus +‎ -ē.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪn.dʊkˈtiː.weː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̪.d̪ukˈt̪iː.ve]

inductīvē (not comparable)

1. by yielding

inductīve

1. vocative masculine singular of inductīvus

• inductive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.