Inductive in a sentence as an adjective

He's adding an inductive load to wherever the energy is coming from.

Perhaps public areas would have inductive chargers on the wall; you'd just walk over and hold your phone or tablet up to it for a few seconds.

Depending on the price of that and whether it's compatible with my Surface Pro, I may pick one up. However, I'd prefer to have an inductive charging plate as I have with my Nokia phone.

Imagine an ornithopter mimic that seeks out power lines, clamps onto them, and powers itself via inductive pickups in its feet.

After all, science is entirely founded on a kind of inductive reasoning, so logical fallacies aren't crazy to consider.

" I was much more accustomed to seeing analysis in terms of inductive proof and case analysis than taking the derivative of "the number of 1's" with respect to time.

It takes a great deal of arrogance to talk of the world in such a generalized, grandiose way, without a shred of evidence apart from personal biases and inductive reasoning.

Recursion is a lot like mathematical induction, and inductive definitions are ubiquitous in mathematics.

It's not culturally unique.> Urban LandscapeThis has some research to back it up - Nisbett, Masuda, Shah, othersOther claims also read as casual inductive observations that don't hold up to much scrutiny.

I've heard this argument a few times: "It charges so fast that the density doesn't matter".What often gets missed is that for it to charge fast, you need to provide a lot of power, a lot more than any current changer and laughably more than any inductive system can provide.

Among these are the difficulty of reasoning about resource usage with non-strict evaluation, that laziness complicates the definition of data types and inductive reasoning,[49]and the "inferiority" of Haskell's class system compared to ML's module system.

"The guy isn't writing a dissertation; this is lightweight pop-science from a fairly good writer and presenter, with a knack for inductive reasoning"Gladwell's angle is that he's done the heavy lifting and read those dissertations for you, in the end democratizing these counterintuitive tidbits of intellectual shortcuts that will allow everyone to understand the world better.

One of the interesting things about lifehacking is that it seems to be one of those things where "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" - kind of like the kid who takes Philosophy 101, learns a little bit about syllogisms and formal deductive fallacies like ad hominems, and goes around being obnoxious while never realizing that actually, most deductive fallacies are valid inductive arguments.

Inductive definitions

adjective

arising from inductance; "inductive reactance"

adjective

of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion; "inductive reasoning"

adjective

inducing or influencing; leading on; "inductive to the sin of Eve"- John Milton

See also: inducive