Thesaurus: derivation

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1. n. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
2. n. 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. n. The act of word/tracing">tracing word/origin">origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root.
4. n. The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
5. n. That from which a thing is derived.
6. n. That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
7. n. 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. n. A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
9. n. the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
10. n. (word/historical">historical word/linguistics">linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
11. n. a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
12. n. (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation