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Derivation Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Derivation?
[n] drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
[n] drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body [n] inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline [n] a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions [n] (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase [n] the source from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues); "he prefers shoes of Italian derivation" [n] (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation: `singer' from `sing'; `undo' from `do' Synonyms | Synonyms for Derivation: ancestry | deriving | etymologizing | filiation | lineage Related Terms | Find terms related to Derivation: acceptance | accidence | acquisition | admission | admittance | adoption | affiliation | affix | affixation | allomorph | ancestry | apparentation | appropriation | assumption | beginning | birth | blood | bloodline | borrowed plumes | bound morpheme | bowwow theory | branch | breed | by-product | cognate | commencement | common ancestry | comparative linguistics | conception | conclusion | conjugation | consanguinity | consequence | consequent | copying | corollary | cutting | declension | deduction | derivative | deriving | descent | descriptive linguistics | development | dialectology | difference of form | dingdong theory | direct line | distaff side | distillate | doublet | effect | enclitic | eponym | eponymy | etymology | etymon | event | eventuality | eventuation | extraction | family | female line | filiation | folk etymology | formative | foundation | fountain | free form | fruit | genealogy | genesis | getting | glossematics | glossology | glottochronology | glottology | grammar | graphemics | grass roots | harvest | head | historical linguistics | house | IC analysis | illation | imitation | immediate constituent analysis | inception | induction | inference | infix | infixation | inflection | infringement | issue | language study | legacy | lexicology | lexicostatistics | line | line of descent | lineage | linguistic geography | linguistic science | linguistics | logical outcome | male line | mathematical linguistics | mocking | morph | morpheme | morphemic analysis | morphemics | morphology | morphophonemics | offshoot | offspring | origin | original | origination | outcome | outgrowth | paleography | paradigm | pasticcio | pastiche | philology | phonetics | phonology | phylum | pirating | plagiarism | plagiary | precipitate | prefix | prefixation | primitive | proclitic | product | provenance | provenience | psycholinguistics | race | radical | radix | receipt | receival | receiving | reception | result | resultant | rise | root | seed | semantic history | semantics | sept | sequel | sequela | sequence | sequent | side | simulation | sociolinguistics | source | spear side | spindle side | stem | stirps | stock | strain | structuralism | succession | suffix | suffixation | sword side | syntactics | taking | taproot | theme | transformational linguistics | upshot | well | wellspring | whence | word history | word-formation See Also | account | beginning | bloodline | breed | descent | drawing | drawing off | explanation | extraction | hereditary pattern | illation | inference | inheritance | linguistic process | origin | origin | pedigree | root | rootage | source | strain Derivation In Webster's Dictionary \Der`i*va"tion\, n. [L. derivatio: cf. F.
d['e]rivation. See {Derive}.]
1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
[Obs.] --T. Burnet.
2. 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.
As touching traditional communication, . . . I do
not doubt but many of those truths have had the help
of that derivation. --Sir M. Hale.
3. The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or
genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan
root.
4. The state or method of being derived; the relation of
origin when established or asserted.
5. That from which a thing is derived.
6. That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
From the Euphrates into an artificial derivation of
that river. --Gibbon.
7. (Math.) The operation of deducing one function from
another according to some fixed law, called the law of
derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration.
8. (Med.) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the
body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
\Der`iva"tion\, n. The formation of a word from its more original or radical elements; also, a statement of the origin and history of a word. |
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