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noun
1.
the act or fact of deriving or of being derived.
2.
the process of deriving.
3.
the source from which something is derived; origin.
4.
something that is or has been derived; derivative.
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Grammar.
a.
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 (contrasted with inflection).
b.
the systematic description of such processes in a given language.
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Derivational
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Word Origin & History
derivation
1520s (grammatical sense is oldest), from Fr. dérivation (14c.), from L. derivationem, noun of action from derivare (see derive). General meaning "origination, descent" is from c.1600.
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