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Derivation   /dˌɛrəvˈeɪʃən/   Listen
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Derivation  n.  
1.
A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. (Obs.)
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."
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."
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.
8.
(Med.) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
9.
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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"Derivation" Quotes from Famous Books



... knows the derivation of this word as given in this sloka of Kalidasa (in his Kumara Sambhavam) Umeti matra tapasonishiddha paschadumakhyam ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli
... host talked with him in English of the fine old Belgian city. Among other things he told the origin of its name. Ben had been taught that Antwerp was derived from ae'nt werf (on the wharf), but Mynheer van Gend gave him a far more interesting derivation. ...
— Hans Brinker - or The Silver Skates • Mary Mapes Dodge
... should she be in her teens, as "Madam," or "Dear Madam," it being a general term as applicable to women without regard to age or condition, as "Sir" is to their brethren. This will be easily seen when it is recollected that it is a derivation from ma dame, my lady, and since our language is deficient in any equivalent term to the pretty French Mademoiselle, or the German, Fraeulein, and, as "Dear Miss" is obsolete, we must be content to utilize "Madam" on all necessary occasions. There ...
— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke
... of the name of this island it is difficult to trace, but the generally accepted derivation is from the Sanscrit words, "Singh," a lion, and "Pura," a city or town; and if so, it would not have been given by the Malays, but more probably by the Indians, who, according to native history, came over with one, Rajah Suran, and conquered Johore and this island in about the year ...
— Prisoners Their Own Warders - A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits - Settlements Established 1825 • J. F. A. McNair
... giving the best or only solution which present knowledge could produce, or if the critic did not point out a substitute. The substitute is so simple of application, in such agreement with experiments, and so logical in its derivation, that it is surprising that it has not been generally adopted. The neutral axis of reinforced concrete beams under safe loads is near the middle of the depth of the beams. If, in all cases, it be taken at the middle of the depth of the concrete beam, and if variation of intensity ...
— Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design • Edward Godfrey


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