derivation
/der-uh-vey-shuhn/US // ˌdɛr əˈveɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌdɛrɪˈveɪʃən) //
衍生,衍生品,衍生产品,导出
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : 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. 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.the systematic description of such processes in a given language.
- : 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.
Synonyms & Antonyms
nounroot, source
Synonyms
ancestry祖先,祖籍,祖辈,祖传basis基础,基础知识,基础的,基础上beginning开始,初期,开头,起点descent血统,后裔,下降,裔etymology词源,语源,语源学,名词解释foundation基金会,基础,基础知识,础genealogy族谱,谱系,家谱,谱牒inception开始时,初期,开始,开始的时候origin起源,缘起,来源,原产地provenance出处,原产地,产地,原籍provenience出处,原产地,产地,来源spin-off分支,分支机构,分拆,附属公司well很好,良好的,好的,好wellspring井泉,井源,井喷,泉眼whence it came从何而来,从哪里来的,从哪里来
Examples
I also had the nerve to find minor gaps in certain derivations that just didn’t sit right with me.
The French adopt the same derivation, calling it "asbeste" (minèral filamenteux et incombustible).
Its similarity with the numerous derivatives of the verb damno have probably obscured the true derivation of the word.
His method is hence inductive,--the derivation of certain principles from a sum of given facts and phenomena.
In a word, the term contains a series of expressive innuendos by its etymological derivation.
Another etymological example sometimes cited is the derivation of the English uncle from the Latin avus.
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