derivation
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See also: Derivation and dérivation
English
Etymology
From Middle English derivacioun, borrowed from Middle French dérivation, from Latin dērīvātiō, dērīvātiōnem. Morphologically derive + -ation
Pronunciation
Noun
derivation (countable and uncountable, plural derivations)
- A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
- (genealogy, linguistics) The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
- the derivation of a word from an Indo-European root
- (grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
- The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
- That from which a thing is derived.
- That which is derived; a derivative; the result of a deduction.
- The process of deriveing one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction.
- (mathematics) A formal proof: a sequence of statements, each of which is logically entailed by those preceding (with respect to some collection of rules of inference), the initial statements being taken as axioms.
- (mathematics, calculus) The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first.
- (mathematics, differential algebra) An algebraic generalization of the derivative operator (from its natural setting in the ring of real-valued functions) to a general associative algebra over a field. Formally, (given an algebra over a field ) a -linear endomorphism that satisfies Leibnitz's Law.
- Any of several generalizations of this notion: a Hasse–Schmidt derivation, a graded derivation, etc.
- (medicine, historical) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
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Translations
leading or drawing off of water
act of receiving anything from a source
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act of tracing origin or descent
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forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it
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state or method of being derived
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that from which sthg is derived
that which is derived
math: operation of deducing
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medicine: drawing of humors or fluids
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Further reading
- “derivation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
See also
- derivation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
Danish
Noun
derivation c (singular definite derivationen, plural indefinite derivationer)
Declension
Declension of derivation
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | derivation | derivationen | derivationer | derivationerne |
genitive | derivations | derivationens | derivationers | derivationernes |
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