Transduction

The word transduction has several meanings:

• In developmental psychology, transduction is reasoning from specific cases to specific cases, typically employed by children.
• In physiology, transduction is transportation of a stimuli to the nervous system.
• In genetics, transduction is the transfer of viral, bacterial, or both bacterial and viral DNA from one cell to another via bacteriophage.
• In biophysics, transduction is the conveyance of energy from one electron (a donor) to another (a receptor), at the same time that the class of energy changes.
• In machine learning, transduction is directly drawing conclusions about new data from previous data, without constructing a model.

See also: transducer