'Derivation' definitions:
Definition of 'derivation'
From: WordNet
noun
The source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues); "he prefers shoes of Italian derivation"; "music of Turkish derivation"
noun
(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase [syn: deriving, derivation, etymologizing]
noun
A line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
noun
(descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation; "`singer' from `sing' or `undo' from `do' are examples of derivations"
noun
Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline [syn: ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation]
noun
Drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body
noun
Drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
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The act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin
Definition of 'Derivation'
From: GCIDE
- Derivation \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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- As touching traditional communication, . . . I do not doubt but many of those truths have had the help of that derivation. --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted. [1913 Webster]
- 5. That from which a thing is derived. [1913 Webster]
- 6. That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction. [1913 Webster]
- From the Euphrates into an artificial derivation of that river. --Gibbon. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Math.) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the operation of differentiation or of integration. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Med.) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process. [1913 Webster]
- 9. The formation of a word from its more original or radical elements; also, a statement of the origin and history of a word. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'derivation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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