In‐duct″ive (?), a. [LL. inductivus: cf. F. inductif. See Induce.]
1. Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; — usually followed by to.
A brutish vice,
Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve. Milton.
2. Tending to induce or cause.
They may be... inductive of credibility. Sir M. Hale.
3. Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or using, induction; as, inductive reasoning.
4. (Physics) (a) Operating by induction; as, an inductive electrical machine. (b) Facilitating induction; susceptible of being acted upon by induction; as, certain substances have a great inductive capacity.
Inductive embarrassment(Physics), the retardation in signaling on an electric wire, produced by lateral induction. — Inductivephilosophy or method. See Philosophical induction, under Induction. — Inductive sciences, those sciences which admit of, and employ, the inductive method, as astronomy, botany, chemistry, etc.