derivation
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/ˌdɛ.ɹɪˈveɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
English
Definitions
noun
- A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- 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.
- (genealogy) The act of tracing origin or descent.“the derivation of a word from an Indo-European root”
- (grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
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Synonyms
filiationancestrylineagederivingetymologizingdriftadriftbypassderivatizationbranchinjectionby-passshuntdevelopmentshortprovenance