inductor

plural inductors

1. businessA passive device that introduces inductance into an electrical circuit.

   The receiver on a locomotive passing over the inductors on the track on the approach side of a distant or multiple-aspect signal

   1958 April 28, “British Railways Automatic Train Control System”, in Railway Magazine, page 223, image caption

   Synonyms: coil

2. medicineAn evocator or an organizer.
3. One who, or that which, inducts.

   Amrolia had inducted his son Jamshed together with that person’s wife and two children to stay with him in the flat afore-mentioned. Later on, relations between the inductor and inductees deteriorated.

   1986, The Bombay Law Reporter, volume 88, page 628

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   In certain families one can find several “inductees” grouped around one influential “inductor.” I have observed the case of a forever complaining old lady, living with her married daughter, who attracted and shut everybody, mother, father, and two daughters, into the closed circle of their mutual and reciprocal lamentations.

   1956, Charles Odier, Anxiety and Magic Thinking, New York, N.Y.: International Universities Press, Inc., →LCCN, page 281

   He should take all efforts to see that a personal link is well established and he should shape the person in a very healthy way. The success of this lies in the capability of the inductor also who should be able to draw out the interests of the inductees.

   1975, Industrial Economist, volume 8, page 11, column 2

   The vertices of the induced graph (called inductees) are a subset of the vertices of the original graph. The induction can be limited to common neighbors in a certain subset of vertices of the original graph, called the subset of inductors. Each inductor induces edges between the inductees.

   1977, Frans N. Stokman, Roll Calls and Sponsorship, Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff, →ISBN, pages 141–142

   Employee induction is practised in this country by many establishments in some form or the other and with varying degree of emphasis. […] It is natural for an inductee to look to the inductor for correct information as and when he finds the real-life situations out of line with what was conveyed.

   1979, Capital: A Weekly Journal of Commerce, Industry, and Finance, volume 182, page 169, columns 1–2

   When honoree Kenny G. was asked if he had attended Woodstock, he replied, “No, I was just being bar mitzvahed then, so that was more important than being at Woodstock.” His inductor, Jon Lovitz, jumped in and said, “I’m not as religious as [Kenny]; I’d rather have been at Woodstock.”

   1994 July 9, Melinda Newman, “Pop Radio Gives Garth A Great Big Kiss; News & Notes From The VH-1 Honors”, in Billboard, volume 106, number 28, page 14

   Antonyms: inductee