Definition of "derivation"

A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.  examples

The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.  examples

(genealogy, linguistics) The act of tracing origin or descent.  examples

(grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.  examples

The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.  examples

That from which a thing is derived.  examples

That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.  examples

(mathematics) The operation of deducing one function from another according to a fixed definition, referred to as derivation or differentiation; this is the inverse operation to integration.  examples

(medicine) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.  examples