DERIVATION

noun that from which a thing is derived.

2. derivation ·noun that which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.

3. derivation ·noun a leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

4. derivation ·noun the state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.

5. derivation ·noun a drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.

6. derivation ·noun the act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an aryan root.

7. derivation ·add. ·noun the formation of a word from its more original or radical elements; also, a statement of the origin and history of a word.

8. derivation ·noun 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.

9. derivation ·noun 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.