induce🔊

To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon. +

To cause, bring about, lead to. +

To induce the labor of (a pregnant woman).

(physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.

(logic) To infer by induction.

(obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.

(obsolete) To draw on, place upon.