Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of superinducing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of superinducing, or the state of being superinduced.
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- noun The act or the result of
superinducing
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Examples
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Sanction is a (higher-level) superinduction on an obligation that already exists, where it is legitimate (it imposes a legal obligation about how to handle violations of legal obligations).
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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Sanction is a (higher-level) superinduction on an obligation that already exists, where it is legitimate (it imposes a legal obligation about how to handle violations of legal obligations).
Dashed Off 2005
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The result, therefore, is that water has disappeared, and hydrogen and oxygen have appeared in its stead; or, in other words, the original laws of these gaseous agents, which had been suspended by the superinduction of the new laws called the properties of water, have again started into existence, and the causes of water are found among its effects.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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The result therefore is that water has disappeared, and hydrogen and oxygen have appeared in its stead: or in other words, the original laws of these gaseous agents, which had been suspended by the superinduction of the new laws called the properties of water, have again started into existence, and the causes of water are found among its effects.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839
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Though, in point of fact, cold itself is but a superinduction of the one pole, or, what amounts to the same thing, the subtraction of the other, under the modifications afore described; and therefore are the metals indecomposible, because they are themselves the decompositions of the metallic axis, in all its degrees of longitude and latitude.
Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Existence, on the other hand, is distinguished from essence, by the superinduction of reality.
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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_Agates and onyxes_ found in sand-rocks; of vegetable origin; have been in complete fusion; their concentric coloured circles not from superinduction but from congelation; experiment of freezing a solution of blue vitriol; iron and manganese repelled in spheres as the nodule of flint cooled; circular stains of marl in salt-mines; some flint nodules resemble knots of wood or roots.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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To clarify the molecular mechanism underlying p53 superinduction in 5-FU-treated HIF-1α-deficient cells, we characterized the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Nadine Rohwer et al. 2010
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'nothing grows, all is made'; whereas growth itself is but a disguised mode of being made by the superinduction of the _jam data_ on the _jam datum_; and he insisted that 'the flux of individuals at any moment in existence in a country is there for the value of the State, far more than the State for them, though both positions are true proportionately.'
Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873
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