Inductive Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭn-dŭktĭv
Before or in preparation for the main matter, action, or business
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. introductory
  2. prefatory
  3. a posteriori
  4. preliminary
  5. inducive
  6. preparatory
  7. empirical
  8. prolegomenous
  9. preparative
  10. inductive
Antonyms:
  1. deductive
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. empiricism
  2. baconian
  3. epagoge

Words Related to Inductive

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Inductive Sentence Examples

  • How little this criticism was justified may be seen from the fact that Mill's inductive logic was the direct result of his aspirations after political stability as determined by the dominion of the wisest (Examiner letters).

  • The inductive enumeration is either of all cases or of some only.

  • The difficulty of connecting lightships and isolated lighthouses to the mainland by submarine cables, owing to the destructive action of the tides and waves on rocky coasts on the wll- shore ends, led many inventors to look for a way out of the difficulty by the adoption of some form of inductive Smith.

  • Cavendish and subsequently Faraday discovered this fact, and the latter gave the name " specific inductive capacity," or " dielectric constant," to that quality of an insulator which determines the charge taken by a conductor embedded in it when charged to a given potential.

  • In this case no current flows from the battery through the line or instruments, the whole action being inductive.

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