DERIVATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does derivation mean? 

• DERIVATION (noun)
  The noun DERIVATION has 8 senses:

1. the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)

2. (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase

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

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

5. inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

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

7. drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation

8. the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin

  Familiarity information: DERIVATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DERIVATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

music of Turkish derivation

Hypernyms ("derivation" is a kind of...):

beginning; origin; root; rootage; source (the place where something begins, where it springs into being)

Derivation:

derive (develop or evolve from a latent or potential state)

derive (come from)

derive (come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

derivation; deriving; etymologizing

Hypernyms ("derivation" is a kind of...):

account; explanation (a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.)

Domain category:

diachronic linguistics; diachrony; historical linguistics (the study of linguistic change)

Derivation:

derive (come from)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("derivation" is a kind of...):

illation; inference (the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation)

Derivation:

derive (reason by deduction; establish by deduction)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Context example:

'singer' from 'sing' or 'undo' from 'do' are examples of derivations

Hypernyms ("derivation" is a kind of...):

linguistic process (a process involved in human language)

Domain category:

descriptive linguistics (a description (at a given point in time) of a language with respect to its phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics without value judgments)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "derivation"):

eponymy (the derivation of a general name from that of a famous person)

Derivation:

derive (come from)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

ancestry; derivation; filiation; lineage

Hypernyms ("derivation" is a kind of...):

hereditary pattern; inheritance ((genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents)

Attribute:

purebred (bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain)

crossbred (bred from parents of different varieties or species)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "derivation"):

descent; extraction; origin (properties attributable to your ancestry)

bloodline; pedigree (ancestry of a purebred animal)

Derivation:

derive (come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example)

Sense 6

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("derivation" is a kind of...):

drawing; drawing off (act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("derivation" is a kind of...):

drawing; drawing off (act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source)

Sense 8

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("derivation" is a kind of...):

act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

 Context examples 

A malignant neoplasm of probable fibroblastic derivation.

(Malignant Solitary Fibrous Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Malignant neoplasm generally composed of spindle cells of peripheral nerve sheath derivation.

(Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor of the Mouse Skin, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Subsequent studies have suggested a derivation from Schwann cells.

(Granular Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

A data derivation technique used to calculate a subject's maximum value over a defined set of records.

(Maximum Value Derivation Technique, NCI Thesaurus)

A localized neoplasm of probable fibroblastic derivation, that arises from the mediastinum.

(Mediastinal Solitary Fibrous Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

A localized neoplasm of probable fibroblastic derivation, that arises from the pericardium.

(Pericardial Solitary Fibrous Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-functioning pituitary gland adenoma without hormonal immunoreactivity or evidence of specific adenohypophysial cell derivation.

(Null Cell Pituitary Gland Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A data derivation technique used to calculate a subject's minimum value over a defined set of records.

(Minimum Value Derivation Technique, NCI Thesaurus)

A data derivation technique used to calculate a subject's analysis end point value.

(Endpoint Value Derivation Technique, NCI Thesaurus)

ISO DEF: the relationship among a Data Element which is derived, the rule controlling its derivation, and the Data Element(s) from which it is derived.

(Derived Data Element, NCI Thesaurus)