derivation

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Derivation in and of itself isn’t a crime, especially in Hollywood, where the same 10 stories get recycled with the metronomic regularity of shrink appointments and Botox treatments.

From Washington Post • May 7, 2015

Henderson also wrote one of the first full-length biographies of Mark Twain, a 500,000-word history of his state, and a recondite mathematics treatise, "The Derivation of the Brianchon Configuration for Two Spatial Point-Triads."

From Time Magazine Archive

Derivation of "antithesis"?—Compose an example of an antithesis.—Point out the antithesis in the following:—

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

Derivation: A Spanish word meaning “butterfly,” applied to a county in California and subsequently taken for the family name.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley

Derivation: From a Caddo word hadai, sig. “brush wood.”

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley