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derivation.

A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˌdɛ.ɹɪˈveɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
  1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

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  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.

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  3. The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).

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    the derivation of a word from an Indo-European root
  4. Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.

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  5. The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.

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  6. That from which a thing is derived.

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  7. That which is derived; a derivative; the result of a deduction.

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  8. The process of deriving one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction.

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  9. The process of deriving one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction. 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.

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  10. The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first.

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  11. 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.

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  12. 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. Any of several generalizations of this notion: a Hasse–Schmidt derivation, a graded derivation, etc.

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  13. 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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Where this word comes from

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

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