- The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.
- The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
- The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition. [quotations ▼]
- (logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
to induce (third-person singular simple present induces, present participle inducing, simple past and past participle induced)
- (transitive) to lead by persuasion or influence; incite
- (transitive) to cause, bring about, lead to
- His meditation induced a compromise.
- Opium induces sleep.
- (physics) to cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction
- (transitive, logic) to infer by induction.
- (transitive, obsolete) to lead in, bring in, introduce
- (transitive, obsolete) to draw on, place upon
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option (plural options)- One of the choices which can be made.
- The freedom or right to choose.
- (finance) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such as a residence or automobile.
- (countable) Something suggested.
- I have a small suggestion: try lifting the left side up a bit.
- Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.
- (uncountable) The act of suggestion.
- Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
- (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
- He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.
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- (obsolete) An occurrence or event.
- (uncountable) The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events.
- (uncountable) The time when something happens.
- (uncountable) The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.
- (countable) An instance of recording the time of something.
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