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DERIVATION
- Something derived; a derivative
- The obtaining or developing of something from a source or origin
- The formation of a word from another word or from a root in the same or another language
- In generative grammar the set of stages that link the abstract underlying structure of an expression to its surface form
- The process of deducing a new formula, theorem, etc., from previously accepted statements
- the act of deriving [n -S]
- A sequence of statements showing that a formula, theorem, etc., is a consequence of previously accepted statements
- Origin; extraction