derivation

n.

1. The act or process of deriving.
2. The state or fact of being derived; originating: a custom of recent derivation.
3. Something derived; a derivative.
4. The form or source from which something is derived; an origin.
5. The historical origin and development of a word; an etymology.
6. Linguistics.
   1. The process by which words are formed from existing words or bases by adding affixes, as singer from sing or undo from do, by changing the shape of the word or base, as song from sing, or by adding an affix and changing the pronunciation of the word or base, as electricity from electric.
   2. A linguistic description of the process of word formation.
   3. In generative linguistics, the process by which a surface structure is generated from a deep structure.
   4. A formal representation or description of the series of ordered linguistic rules and operations that generate a surface structure from a deep structure.
7. Logic & Mathematics. A logical or mathematical process indicating through a sequence of statements that a result such as a theorem or a formula necessarily follows from the initial assumptions.

derivational der'i·va'tion·al adj.

noun

1. Something derived from another: byproduct, derivative, descendant, offshoot, outgrowth, spinoff. See kin.
2. A point of origination: beginning, fount, fountain, fountainhead, mother, origin, parent, provenance, provenience, root, rootstock, source, spring, well. See start/end.

n

Definition: root, source
Antonyms: conclusion, consequence, effect, end, outgrowth, result

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - afledning, udledning, derivat, afledt ord/form, afstamning, bevis, slutning

Nederlands (Dutch)
afleiding (afkomst/ etymologie)

Français (French)
n. - dérivation, origine

Deutsch (German)
n. - Herleitung, Herkunft, Ableitung, Derivation

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - προέλευση, καταγωγή, ετυμολογία ή παραγωγή (λέξης)

Italiano (Italian)
derivazione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - derivação (f)

Русский (Russian)
происхождение, источник, деривация

Español (Spanish)
n. - derivación

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - härledning

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
诱导, 起源调查, 来历, 语言的衍生

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 誘導, 起源調查, 來歷, 語言的衍生

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 유도, 기원, 파생

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 引き出すこと, 派生, 派生論, 由来, 起源, 導出, 微分, 誘導

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) منشأ شئ وبخاصه الكلمات, اشتقاق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מקור, השתלשלות מלה, מקור מלה‬

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