DERIVATION • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Derivation

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/dˌɛrəvˈeɪʃən/ Listen

Derivation

noun

The source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues). "Music of Turkish derivation"

(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase. Synonyms: deriving, etymologizing.

A line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions.

(descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation.

Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline. Synonyms: ancestry, filiation, lineage.

Drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body.

Drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation.

The act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin.

See more definitions of Derivation...

See images of 'Derivation'

Etymology of 'Derivation'

Share |

"Derivation" Quotes from Famous Books

... (in the preceding number) sketched some of the reasons suggestive of such a theory of derivation of species,—reasons which give it plausibility, and even no small probability, as applied to our actual world and to changes occurring since the latest tertiary period. We are well pleased at this moment to find that the conclusions we were arriving ...

— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 34, August, 1860 • Various

... himself. He could not stand still. That is why a whole generation of otherwise dissimilar artists have drawn inspiration from his work. That is why it implies no disparagement of any living artist when I say that the prime characteristic of the new movement is its derivation from Cezanne. ...

— Art • Clive Bell

... of the Savior, and as thus spelled is of Greek derivation; its Hebrew equivalent was Yehoshua or Yeshua, or, as we render it in English, Joshua. In the original the name was well understood as meaning "Help of Jehovah", or "Savior". Though as common an ...

— Jesus the Christ - A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy - Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern • James Edward Talmage

... it is, it is mere sensual babble. The whole of Popery lies in the assumption of a Church, as a numerical unit, infallible in the highest degree, inasmuch as both which is Scripture, and what Scripture teaches, is infallible by derivation only from an infallible decision of the Church. Fairly undermine or blow up this: and all the remaining peculiar tenets of Romanism fall with it, or stand by their own right as opinions of ...

— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... for years for, "Laodamia" is a very original poem,—I mean original with reference to your own manner. You have nothing like it, I should have seen it in a strange place, and greatly admired it, but not suspected its derivation. ...

— The Best Letters of Charles Lamb • Charles Lamb

More quotes...