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Derivations

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

📖 Definitions of "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.

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