资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Inductive \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. [R.]

            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.

   {Inductive} {philosophy or method}. See {Philosophical
      induction}, under {Induction}.

   {Inductive sciences}, those sciences which admit of, and
      employ, the inductive method, as astronomy, botany,
      chemistry, etc.