Derivation

Noun

 * 1) A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
 * 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.
 * 3) The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Indo-European 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.
 * 7)  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)  A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.

Adjectives for Derivation
remote; theoretical; unanswerable; grotesque; indirect; authentic.

Synonyms for Derivation
origin, source, rise, root, cause, beginning, foundation, fountain, nucleus, commencement, spring.

Antonyms for Derivation
end, extinction, termination, result, resultant, consequence, issue, outgrowth, effect, conclusion.

Derived terms

 * derivation tree

Related terms

 * derive
 * derived
 * derivative

Thesaurus
IC analysis, 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, 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

Translations

 * Bulgarian: деривация
 * Romanian: derivație


 * Swedish: avledning


 * Bulgarian: етимология
 * Japanese:


 * Russian:
 * Swedish: avledning, härledning


 * Bulgarian:


 * Czech:


 * Bulgarian: деривация


 * Bulgarian: диференциране
 * Czech:


 * Swedish: derivering, härledning


 * Dutch: afleiding
 * Panjabi: ਵਿਉਤਪੱਤੀ