induction
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She discovered the philosopher David Hume, intrigued by his “problem of induction,” which challenged the logic of the idea that something will happen again, like the sun rising, because it did so in the past.
The organization has said that planned home births are associated with fewer maternal interventions, like labor induction or cesareans, than planned hospital birth—a major talking point among women who opt out of hospitalized birth.
Unused lines can become energized from electrified lines running parallel to them through a process called induction.
From Los Angeles Times
Regulators at the state Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety asked Edison this summer if any of those lines posed a risk of induction, where they become energized from nearby electrified lines.
From Los Angeles Times
It is the path of the coil as copper twists and turns that converts the voltage from high to low—or low to high—as current flows by mutual induction.
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