decline vs induction

decline

noun
  • The act of declining or refusing something. 

  • A weakening. 

  • Downward movement, fall. 

  • A reduction or diminution of activity. 

  • A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road. 

verb
  • To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain. 

  • To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun. 

  • To cause to decrease or diminish. 

  • To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall. 

  • To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw. 

  • To move downwards, to fall, to drop. 

  • To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like. 

  • To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play. 

  • To become weaker or worse. 

  • To recite all the different declined forms of (a word). 

induction

noun
  • An act of inducing. 

  • Derivation of general principles from specific instances. 

  • A method of proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific case (often an integer; usually 0 or 1) and showing that, if it is true for one case then it must be true for the next. 

  • An act of inducting. 

  • The process of inducing the birth process. 

  • The delivery of air to the cylinders of an internal combustion piston engine. 

  • Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field. 

  • A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service. 

  • The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study. 

  • Use of rumors to twist and complicate the plot of a play or to narrate in a way that does not have to state truth nor fact within the play. 

  • Given a group of cells that emits or displays a substance, the influence of this substance on the fate of a second group of cells 

How often have the words decline and induction occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )