FromMiddle Frenchinductif, fromLate Latininductivus.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdʌktɪv/

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inductive (comparativemoreinductive,superlativemostinductive)

1. (logic) Of, or relating tologicalinduction.(Can we add anexample for this sense?)
2. (physics) Of, relating to, or arising frominductance.(Can we add anexample for this sense?)
3. introductory orpreparatory.(Can we add anexample for this sense?)
4. Influencing; tending to induce or cause.
   • 1667,John Milton, “Book X”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise 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, […], published1677,→OCLC:

     They may be[…]inductive of credibility.

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

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.dyk.tiv/

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inductive

1. femininesingular ofinductif

Frominductīvus +‎-ē.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /in.dukˈtiː.u̯eː/,[ɪn̪d̪ʊkˈt̪iːu̯eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /in.dukˈti.ve/,[in̪d̪ukˈt̪iːve]

inductīvē (notcomparable)

1. byyielding

inductīve

1. vocativemasculinesingular ofinductīvus

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

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