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derivation

DERIVATION, n.

1. The act of deriving, drawing or receiving from a source; as the derivation of an estate from ancestors, or of profits from capital, or of truth or facts from antiquity.

2. In grammar, the drawing or tracing of a word from its root or original; as, derivation is from the L. Derivo, and the latter from rivus, a stream.

3. A drawing from, or turning aside from, a natural course or channel; as the derivation of water from its channel by lateral drains.

4. A drawing of humors from one part of the body to another; as the derivation of humors from the eye, by a blister on the neck.

5. The thing derived or deduced.



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DERIVATION, n.

1. The act of deriving, drawing or receiving from a source; as the derivation of an estate from ancestors, or of profits from capital, or of truth or facts from antiquity.

2. In grammar, the drawing or tracing of a word from its root or original; as, derivation is from the L. Derivo, and the latter from rivus, a stream.

3. A drawing from, or turning aside from, a natural course or channel; as the derivation of water from its channel by lateral drains.

4. A drawing of humors from one part of the body to another; as the derivation of humors from the eye, by a blister on the neck.

5. The thing derived or deduced.

DER-I-VA'TION, n. [L. derivatio.]

  1. The act of deriving, drawing or receiving from a source; as, the derivation of an estate from ancestors, or of profits from capital, or of truth or facts from antiquity.
  2. In grammar, the drawing or tracing of a word from its root or original; as, derivation from the L. derivo, and the latter from rivus, a stream.
  3. A drawing from, or turning aside from, a natural course or channel; as, the derivation of water from its channel by lateral drains.
  4. A drawing of humors from one part of the body to another; as, the derivation of humors from the eye, by a blister on the neck.
  5. The thing derived or deduced. – Glanville.

Der`i*va"tion
  1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

    [Obs.] T. Burnet.
  2. The formation of a word from its more original or radical elements; also, a statement of the origin and history of a word.
  3. 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.

    As touching traditional communication, . . . I do not doubt but many of those truths have had the help of that derivation. Sir M. Hale.

  4. The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root.
  5. The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
  6. That from which a thing is derived.
  7. That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.

    From the Euphrates into an artificial derivation of that river. Gibbon.

  8. The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the operation of differentiation or of integration.
  9. 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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Derivation

DERIVATION, noun

1. The act of deriving, drawing or receiving from a source; as the derivation of an estate from ancestors, or of profits from capital, or of truth or facts from antiquity.

2. In grammar, the drawing or tracing of a word from its root or original; as, derivation is from the Latin Derivo, and the latter from rivus, a stream.

3. A drawing from, or turning aside from, a natural course or channel; as the derivation of water from its channel by lateral drains.

4. A drawing of humors from one part of the body to another; as the derivation of humors from the eye, by a blister on the neck.

5. The thing derived or deduced.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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