Derivation (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. the act or fact of deriving or of being derived.
  2. the process of deriving.
  3. the source from which something is derived; origin.
  4. something that is or has been derived; derivative.
  5. Mathematics.
  6. Grammar.
    • the process or device of adding affixes to or changing the shape of a base, thereby assigning the result to a form class that may undergo further inflection or participate in different syntactic constructions, as in forming service from serve, song from sing, and hardness from hard (contrasted with inflection).
    • the systematic description of such processes in a given language.
  7. Linguistics.
    • a set of forms, including the initial form, intermediate forms, and final form, showing the successive stages in the generation of a sentence as the rules of a generative grammar are applied to it.
    • the process by which such a set of forms is derived.
noun
  1. the act of deriving or state of being derived
  2. the source, origin, or descent of something, such as a word
  3. something derived; a derivative
    • the process of deducing a mathematical theorem, formula, etc, as a necessary consequence of a set of accepted statements
    • this sequence of statements
    • the operation of finding a derivative
Derivation (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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