inductivelyadv.
1. By inductive reasoning.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > process of inferring, inference > [adverb]
by consequent1489
inferringly1571
of consequence1573
conclusionally1574
by consequence1581
reductively1624
deductivelya1641
porismatically1646
conclusively1657
concludently1673
inferentially1691
inductivelya1716
ex vi terminia1726
inferably1903
inferribly1905
a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VIII. 197 This I shall make appear inductively, by recounting the several ends and intents, to which..it may be designed.
1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 487 No sufficient documents have yet been furnished, either experimentally, inductively, or analogically.
1881 Seeley Bonaparte in Macmillan's Mag. XLIV. 165/2 My desire is to see this question..treated inductively and without ungrounded assumptions.
2. By electric induction.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrically induced magnetism > electromagnetic induction > [adverb]
influentially1792
inductively1848
1848 W. S. Harris Rudim. Electr. iii. 52 The cover, being insulated, does not take up the electricity of the plate, but is acted upon inductively.
1866 R. M. Ferguson Electricity 12 The two magnets..act inductively on each other, and so lessen the conjoint power.
1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 22 The current pulsations, which are inductively produced by the vibrations of the diaphragms.
1892 S. P. Thompson Dynamo-electr. Machinery (ed. 4) 101 In disk armatures of the..Wallace-Farmer type, each of the parallel coils acted inductively on its neighbour.
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