induces
- 1Third-person singular simple present of induce.
Bright light induces the plant to flower earlier than usual.
A persuasive ad induces shoppers to buy things they never planned to.
Note
The -s form carries every meaning of induce, from persuading someone to causing an effect, along with the physicist's and the logician's senses. With a person as object it usually takes a to-infinitive (she induces him to stay). With an effect it takes a plain object (the drug induces sleep; a moving magnet induces a current). Other present-tense subjects take induce, and the past is induced.
The medication induces drowsiness within an hour.
A changing magnetic field induces a current in the coil.
induces is a form of induce
induce, verb: To lead someone to act in a certain way by means of persuasion or influence. Full entry
- Spelling
- induce → induces: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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