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Pronunciation
IPA|/�d�r��veɪ��n/
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:rhymes|eɪ��n

Noun
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1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
2. 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.
3. The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Indo-European root.
4. The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
5. That from which a thing is derived.
6. That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
7. The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration.
8. A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.

Translations
trans-top|the act of receiving anything from a source
Czech: odvození n
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Dutch: afleiding f
Panjabi: :pa:ਵਿ�ਤਪੱਤ�|ਵਿ�ਤਪੱਤ� f
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• 2007-11-22 21:23 - AugPi - /* Noun */ trn +nl

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