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initiation
An initiating or being initiated
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  1. An initiating or being initiated
  2. The ceremony or conventions by which a person is initiated into a fraternity, club, etc.
  3. A ceremony, ritual, test, or period of instruction with which a new member is admitted to an organization or office or to knowledge.
commencement
The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
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  1. The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
  2. A beginning; a start.
  3. The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
installment
One of a number of successive payments in settlement of a debt.
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  1. One of a number of successive payments in settlement of a debt.
  2. A partial payment of a debt scheduled to be made at regular intervals. A partial payment of a debt scheduled to be made at regular intervals.
  3. Any of the parts of a debt or other sum of money to be paid at regular times over a specified period
dedication
A grant of land, a copyright, or of some other property, or the right of use in land or other property (an easement), for a public purpose. A grant of land, a copyright, or of some other property, or the right of use in land or other property (an easement), for a public purpose.
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  1. A grant of land, a copyright, or of some other property, or the right of use in land or other property (an easement), for a public purpose. A grant of land, a copyright, or of some other property, or the right of use in land or other property (an easement), for a public purpose.
  2. A note prefixed to a literary, artistic, or musical composition dedicating it to someone in token of affection or esteem.
  3. An inscription, as in a book, dedicating it to a person, cause, etc.
inaugural
An inauguration.
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  1. An inauguration.
  2. A speech made at an inauguration
  3. A speech given by a person being formally inducted into office.
induction
The creation of a voltage difference across a conductive material (such as a coil of wire) by exposing it to a changing magnetic field. Induction is fundamental to hydroelectric power, in which water-powered turbines spin wire coils through strong magnetic fields. It is also the working principle underlying transformers and induction coils.
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  1. The creation of a voltage difference across a conductive material (such as a coil of wire) by exposing it to a changing magnetic field. Induction is fundamental to hydroelectric power, in which water-powered turbines spin wire coils through strong magnetic fields. It is also the working principle underlying transformers and induction coils.
  2. (Physics) The act or process by which an electric or magnetic effect is produced in an electrical conductor or magnetizable body when it is exposed to the influence or variation of a field of force
  3. An inducting or being inducted; installation, initiation, etc.
initiation
The act or process of initiating something.
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  1. The act or process of initiating something.
  2. The ceremony or conventions by which a person is initiated into a fraternity, club, etc.
  3. The process of being initiated.
installation
An example of installation art.
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  1. An example of installation art.
  2. An installing or being installed
  3. Something installed; specif., a complete mechanical apparatus fixed in position for use
investiture
The act or formal ceremony of conferring the authority and symbols of a high office.
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  1. The act or formal ceremony of conferring the authority and symbols of a high office.
  2. (Feudal Law) Ceremonial transfer of land to a tenant
  3. A formal investing as with an office, power, or authority, often with appropriate symbols or robes
beginning
The time when something begins or is begun:
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  1. The time when something begins or is begun:
  2. The place where something begins or is begun:
  3. The act or process of bringing or being brought into being; a start:
commencement
The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
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  1. The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
  2. The act or time of commencing; beginning; start
  3. A beginning; a start.
inception
The beginning of something; start; commencement
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  1. The beginning of something; start; commencement
incipiency
A state of nascency; a quality of incipience.
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  1. A state of nascency; a quality of incipience.
initiation
A ceremony, ritual, test, or period of instruction with which a new member is admitted to an organization or office or to knowledge.
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  1. A ceremony, ritual, test, or period of instruction with which a new member is admitted to an organization or office or to knowledge.
  2. The act or process of initiating something.
  3. The ceremony or conventions by which a person is initiated into a fraternity, club, etc.
launch
(Nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like. (Compare Spanish lancha.)
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  1. (Nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like. (Compare Spanish lancha.)
  2. (Nautical) The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
  3. The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)
leadoff
An opening play or move.
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  1. An opening play or move.
  2. One that leads off.
  3. The first in a series of actions, moves, etc.
opening
A beginning; first part; commencement
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  1. A beginning; first part; commencement
  2. (Chess, Checkers) The series of moves at the beginning of a game, often a specific, conventional sequence of moves
  3. Start of operations; formal beginning
origination
(Uncountable) The process of bringing something into existence.
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  1. (Uncountable) The process of bringing something into existence.
start
An opportunity of beginning or entering upon a career, etc.
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  1. An opportunity of beginning or entering upon a career, etc.
  2. A lead or other advantage, as at the beginning of a race or contest
  3. An instance of beginning a race:
kickoff
A similar kick in Rugby.
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  1. A similar kick in Rugby.
  2. (Football) A place kick in football that starts play at the beginning of a half or after a team has scored.
  3. A beginning, as of a campaign or drive
Find another word for inauguration. In this page you can discover 26 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for inauguration, like: initiation, commencement, installment, dedication, installation, introduction, inaugural, induction, initiation, installation and instatement.

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  • A stone inauguration chair of the O'Neills is preserved in the Belfast Museum.

  • Pams, his inauguration taking place on Feb.

  • Blaine, and served until the inauguration of President Cleveland in 1885.

  • At the inauguration of the institute Pasteur closed his oration with the following words: "Two opposing laws seem to me now in contest.

  • Every king was obliged, on his inauguration, to swear that he would govern justly and according to law, to which he remained always subject.

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