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noun
- The act or process of implanting.
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adjective
- (Of a fortress, wall, etc.) Too strong to be penetrated.
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| increase |
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noun
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger
verb (increas, ing)
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(intransitive, of a quantity) to become larger.
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(transitive) To make (a quantity) larger.
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adjective
- Not caring; apathetic.
He was to the proposal, since it didn't affect him, either way.
- mediocre, Mediocre, usually used negatively in modern usage.
The long distance and the roads made the journey impossible.
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| induction |
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noun
- the act of inducting
- a formal ceremony in which a person is inducted into an office or into military service
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(physics) the generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field
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(logic) the derivation of general principles from specific instances
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(mathematics) a general proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific integer (for example) and showing that, if it is true for one integer then it must be true for the next
- the act of inducing childbirth
- In theatre, induction is the use of rumors to twist and complicate the plot of a play or to narrate in a way that does not have to state truth nor fact within the play.
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(biology) In developmental biology, the development of a feature from part of a formerly homogenous field of cells in response to a morphogen whose source determines the feature's position and extent.
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(obsolete) an introduction
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| inductive |
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adjective
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(logic) of, or relating to logical induction
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(physics) of, relating to, or arising from induction or inductance
- introductory or preparatory
- influencing
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| invagination |
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noun
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(medicine) The process where an anatomical part invaginates upon itself or into another structure.
- One of the methods by which the various germinal layers of the ovum are differentiated.
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| involution |
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noun
- entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy
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1968: "Gomez," said the mortician, "is an expert only on the involutions of his own rectum." " Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside
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(mathematics) An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
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| isometry |
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noun (isometries)
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(mathematics) A function between metric spaces (or on a single metric space) having the property that the distance between two images is equal to the distance between their pre-images.
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