induce

verb

• 1 [with object and infinitive] succeed in persuading or leading (someone) to do something:the pickets induced many workers to stay away

• 2bring about or give rise to:none of these measures induced a change of policy
• produce (an electric charge or current or a magnetic state) by induction: the current in the primary winding is induced by the rotating magnet
• (usually as adjective induced) Physics cause (radioactivity) by bombardment with radiation.

• 3 Medicine bring on (the birth of a baby) artificially, typically by the use of drugs: (as adjective induced)induced labour
• bring on childbirth in (a pregnant woman) artificially, typically by the use of drugs: Carol was induced just four days before her baby’s due date

• 4 Logic derive by inductive reasoning: from the experimental evidence, one infers or induces the hypothesis