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derivation
has definitions from the fields of genetics,psychology,logic,linguistics
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[ noun ] (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
Synonyms Used in print (Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)For_example , when the film is only four minutes old , Neitzbohr refers to a small , Victorian piano_stool as `` Wilhelmina '' , and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano_stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name , of_course , was Doris ( the English equivalent , when passed_through middle Gaelic derivations , of Wilhelmina ) . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the source from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
Examples "he prefers shoes of Italian derivation" Used in print (Richard F. McLaughlin, et al., "A study of the...)Such a dual derivation was strikingly demonstrated during the injection process where initial filling would be noted to occur in several isolated pleural vessels at_once . |
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[ noun ] (psychology,logic) a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
Used in print (John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)A chief characteristic of experience in the mode of causal efficacy is one of derivation from the past . |
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[ noun ] drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body
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[ noun ] (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation: `singer' from `sing'; `undo' from `do'
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[ noun ] drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
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