- something from which anything arises or is derived; source; fountainhead: to follow a stream to its origin.
- rise or derivation from a particular source: the origin of a word.
- the first stage of existence; beginning: the origin of Quakerism in America.
- ancestry; parentage; extraction: to be of Scottish origin.
- Anatomy.
- the point of derivation.
- the more fixed portion of a muscle.
- Mathematics.
- the point in a Cartesian coordinate system where the axes intersect.
- the point from which rays designating specific angles originate and are measured from in a polar coordinate system with no axes.
- a primary source; derivation
- the beginning of something; first stage or part
- ancestry or parentage; birth; extraction
- anatomy
- the end of a muscle, opposite its point of insertion
- the beginning of a nerve or blood vessel or the site where it first starts to branch out
- maths
- the point of intersection of coordinate axes or planes
- the point whose coordinates are all zero
- the country from which a commodity or product originates
