Derivation
noun
The process of getting a new word from another word.
The word 'reaction' is a derivation of the word 'act'.
Often appears as...
- word derivation
- derivation process
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Academic
noun
The origin or background of something.
The derivation of this tradition can be traced back to ancient times.
Often appears as...
- cultural derivation
- historical derivation
noun
In mathematics, a method of finding the rate at which a function is changing.
The derivation of a function can help us understand its behavior.
Often appears as...
- derivation of function
- mathematical derivation
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Technical
noun
In law, the way a right or title is transferred from one person to another.
The derivation of property rights in this case is complex.
Often appears as...
- derivation of property
- legal derivation
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Formal
Legal
noun
The process of getting a new word from another word.
The word 'reaction' is a derivation of the word 'act'.
Often appears as...
- word derivation
- derivation process
Usage tips
Academic
noun
The origin or background of something.
The derivation of this tradition can be traced back to ancient times.
Often appears as...
- cultural derivation
- historical derivation
noun
In mathematics, a method of finding the rate at which a function is changing.
The derivation of a function can help us understand its behavior.
Often appears as...
- derivation of function
- mathematical derivation
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In law, the way a right or title is transferred from one person to another.
The derivation of property rights in this case is complex.
Often appears as...
- derivation of property
- legal derivation
Usage tips
Formal
Legal
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Pro Tip 1/2Word Formation
Understand how adding prefixes or suffixes changes meaning.
'Unhappiness' comes from adding 'un-' for negation and '-ness' for state to 'happy'.
Pro Tip 2/2Common Roots
Recognizing common roots can help guess meanings.
Both 'derive' and 'derivation' share the root 'de-', indicating a process.
Pro Tip 1/2Word Formation
Understand how adding prefixes or suffixes changes meaning.
'Unhappiness' comes from adding 'un-' for negation and '-ness' for state to 'happy'.
Pro Tip 2/2Common Roots
Recognizing common roots can help guess meanings.
Both 'derive' and 'derivation' share the root 'de-', indicating a process.
Pro Tip 1/2Word Formation
Understand how adding prefixes or suffixes changes meaning.
'Unhappiness' comes from adding 'un-' for negation and '-ness' for state to 'happy'.
Pro Tip 2/2Common Roots
Recognizing common roots can help guess meanings.
Both 'derive' and 'derivation' share the root 'de-', indicating a process.
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But it's the morphological relatives - the ones that share the base O-N-E - That are really astonishing. There are the familiar ones, like "anyone," and "one-track" and "oneself" - those are obvious. But let's take a look at some unexpected derivations
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What lives in ice? PIPE...
predators and surrounded by dinner in the form of anthropods and copepods what more could a fish ask for but maybe a female fish polar Cod intern is dependent upon by a whole range of animals including Narwhal the derivation
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Why is 'x' the unknown?...
such as this 10th-century derivation of roots. The problem for the Medieval Spanish scholars who were tasked with translating this material
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Making sense of spelling...
But it's the morphological relatives - the ones that share the base O-N-E - That are really astonishing. There are the familiar ones, like "anyone," and "one-track" and "oneself" - those are obvious. But let's take a look at some unexpected derivations
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What lives in ice? PIPE...
predators and surrounded by dinner in the form of anthropods and copepods what more could a fish ask for but maybe a female fish polar Cod intern is dependent upon by a whole range of animals including Narwhal the derivation
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Why is 'x' the unknown?...
such as this 10th-century derivation of roots. The problem for the Medieval Spanish scholars who were tasked with translating this material
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Quote examples
Thom Yorke
English Musician
I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.
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Mary Lou Jepsen
American Businesswoman
My central thesis is that combining increased temporal and spatial resolution in MRI techniques with increasingly powerful data correlation techniques will allow the derivation of interpreted meanings from neural signals. I observed, further, that the techniques that exist already allow some correlations.
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Roy Blount, Jr.
American Writer
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
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Bill Viola
American Artist
A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.
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Carroll O'Connor
American Actor
My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?
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Thom Yorke
English Musician
I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.
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Mary Lou Jepsen
American Businesswoman
My central thesis is that combining increased temporal and spatial resolution in MRI techniques with increasingly powerful data correlation techniques will allow the derivation of interpreted meanings from neural signals. I observed, further, that the techniques that exist already allow some correlations.
Quote examples
Roy Blount, Jr.
American Writer
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
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Bill Viola
American Artist
A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.
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Carroll O'Connor
American Actor
My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?
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