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DERIVATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
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 3
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 4
Meaning:
Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
Synonyms:
ancestry; derivation; filiation; lineage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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 5
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 6
Meaning:
(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
Synonyms:
derivation; deriving; etymologizing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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 7
Meaning:
The source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
Example:
music of Turkish derivation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
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 8
Meaning:
(descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation
Example:
'singer' from 'sing' or 'undo' from 'do' are examples of derivations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
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)
Context examples:
The concept component(s) used for a concept derivation.
(Component Concept, NCI Thesaurus)
Derivation Type: Analysis value derivation method.
(CDISC ADaM Derivation Type Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Recent evidence suggests derivation from a plasmacytoid monocyte.
(Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
But I do not approve of this derivation, which seems to be a little strained.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The derivation rule between one or more concepts.
(Concept Derivation Rule, NCI Thesaurus)
The rule may range from a simple operation such as subtraction to a very complex set of derivations.
(Derivation Rule, NCI Thesaurus)
Average: A data derivation technique which calculates a subject's average value over a defined set of records.
(Average of Value Derivation Technique, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Other variables in the dataset provide more information about the value being analyzed (e.g., the subject identification) or describe and trace the derivation of it (e.g., DTYPE) or support the analysis of it (e.g., treatment variables, covariates).
(CDISC Basic Data Structure Dataset, NCI Thesaurus)
Derived from the original group of Syrian hamsters captured by Dr. Israel Aharoni in 1930 and imported into the United States in 1938, followed by colony derivation at Lakeview in 1949 and 1951 and to Charles River in 1969, where the strain is propagated today.
(LVG Hamster, NCI Thesaurus)
The logical, mathematical, and/or other operations specifying derivation.
(Derivation Rule, NCI Thesaurus)
