derivation

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
2. (countable, uncountable) 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.
3. (countable, uncountable) The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
4. (countable, uncountable) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
5. (countable, uncountable) The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
6. (countable, uncountable) That from which a thing is derived.
7. (countable, uncountable) That which is derived; a derivative; the result of a deduction.
8. (countable, uncountable) The process of deriving one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction.
9. (countable, uncountable) The process of deriving one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction.
10. (countable, uncountable) The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first.
11. (countable, uncountable) 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 A over a field K) a K-linear endomorphism that satisfies Leibnitz's Law.
12. (countable, uncountable) 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 A over a field K) a K-linear endomorphism that satisfies Leibnitz's Law.
13. (countable, historical, uncountable) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.

Synonyms

origin

source

descent

deriving

root

ancestry

lineage

etymologizing

etymology

origination

birth

filiation

derive

reason

rise

demonstration

derivative

destiny

differentiate

digression

direction

etymon

evolution

extraction

fount

fountain

⛲

generation

genesis

inference

inspection

lead

leadership

leading

manufacture

original

originate

outgrowth

output

parent

parentage

paternity

pedigree

place of origin

probative

procreation

production

prolog

proof

prove

provenance

Translations

dérivation

derivazione

derivación

Ableitung

derivação

dérivation lexicale

afleiding

derivació

Derivation

παραγωγή

afgeleid woord

πηγή

Herleitung

origine

türetme

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌdɛ.ɹɪˈveɪ.ʃ(ə)n/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: derivacioun

In summary

From Middle English derivacioun, borrowed from Middle French dérivation, from Latin dērīvātiō, dērīvātiōnem. Morphologically derive + -ation.