Meaning

• To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.

• To cause, bring about, lead to.

  "His meditation induced a compromise.   Opium induces sleep."

• To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.

• To infer by induction.

• To lead in, bring in, introduce.

• To draw on, place upon.