Inductive

1. Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by to.
2. Tending to induce or cause.
3. Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or using, induction; as, inductive reasoning.
1. Operating by induction; as, an inductive electrical machine.
2. Facilitating induction; susceptible of being acted upon by induction; as, certain substances have a great inductive capacity.
Inductive embarrassment (Physics),
the retardation in signaling on an electric wire, produced by lateral induction.
Inductive philosophy or Inductive method .
See Philosophical induction, under Induction.
Inductive sciences ,
those sciences which admit of, and employ, the inductive method, as astronomy, botany, chemistry, etc.