Technical term used in physics, biology, and philosophy for the process by which one entity influences another without direct contact. In physics, it often refers to electromagnetic induction; in biology, to embryonic induction; in philosophy, to sympathetic or moral influence.
Electromagnetic induction is a type of induction.
発生学では、感応作用によって組織の分化が引き起こされる。
In embryology, induction causes tissue differentiation.