Usually means: Creation of meaning from roots.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word derivation:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. derivation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. derivation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. derivation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. derivation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. derivation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Derivation, derivation: Wordnik
  7. derivation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. derivation: Wiktionary
  9. derivation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. derivation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. derivation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Derivation, derivation: Dictionary.com
  13. derivation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Derivation (abstract algebra), Derivation (algebra), Derivation (calculus), Derivation (differential algebra), Derivation (linguistics), Derivation (mathematical logic), Derivation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Derivation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. derivation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. derivation: Rhymezone
  18. derivation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. derivation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. derivation: Free Dictionary
  21. derivation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. derivation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Derivation: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. derivation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. derivation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Derivation: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. derivation: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See derivational as well.)

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noun:  A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
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.
noun:  (genealogy, linguistics) The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
noun:  (grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
noun:  The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
noun:  That from which a thing is derived.
noun:  That which is derived; a derivative; the result of a deduction.
noun:  The process of deriving one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction.
noun:  (mathematics) A formal proof: a sequence of statements, each of which is logically entailed by those preceding (with respect to some collection of rules of inference), the initial statements being taken as axioms.
noun:  (mathematics, calculus) The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first.
noun:  (mathematics, differential algebra) An algebraic generalization of the derivative operator (from its natural setting in the ring of real-valued functions) to a general associative algebra over a field. Formally, (given an algebra A over a field K) a K-linear endomorphism that satisfies Leibnitz's Law.
noun:  Any of several generalizations of this notion: a Hasse–Schmidt derivation, a graded derivation, etc.
noun:  (medicine, historical) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.

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