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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024der•i•va•tion /ˌdɛrəˈveɪʃən/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- the act of deriving or the state of being derived:the derivation of new plastics from chemicals.
- source;
origin:a dance of German derivation. - Grammarthe process of adding a prefix or suffix to the base form of a word, thereby forming a new word:The process of derivation forms the word assignment, a noun, from assign, a verb.Compare inflection.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024der•i•va•tion (der′ə vā′shən),USA pronunciation n. - the act or fact of deriving or of being derived.
- the process of deriving.
- the source from which something is derived;
origin. - something that is or has been derived;
derivative. - Mathematics
- development of a theorem.
- differentiation.
- Grammar
- Grammarthe 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).
- Grammarthe systematic description of such processes in a given language.
- Linguistics
- Linguisticsa 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.
- Linguisticsthe process by which such a set of forms is derived.
- Latin dērīvātiōn- (stem of dērīvātiō) a turning away, equivalent. to dērīvāt(us) (past participle of dērīvāre; see derive, -ate1) + -iōn- -ion
- late Middle English derivacioun 1375–1425
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