derivations

noun

1. 1

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

2. 2

   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.

3. 3

   (genealogy) The act of tracing origin or descent.

   “the derivation of a word from an Indo-European root”

4. 4

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

5. 5

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

6. 6

   That from which a thing is derived.

7. 7

   That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.

8. 8

   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.

9. 9

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