induction heating

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induc′tion heat′ing, 

1. Metallurgy, Electricity a method of heating a conducting material, as metal in a furnace, by using electromagnetic induction to establish a current in the material.

• 1915–20

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induction heating noun

1. the heating of a conducting material as a result of the electric currents induced in it by an externally applied alternating magnetic field