Faraday's Law

Lenz's Law

The direction of an induced current is such that the magnetic field it produces (the induced magnetic field) will oppose (or try to compensate for) the change in the magnetic field which causes the induced current and induced magnetic field.

That is the meaning of the "minus sign" in

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