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  • noun Plural form of derivation.

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  • If you can construct a logical explanation based on derivations from a self-evident assumption or two you have a self-consistent morality system.

    Child Abuse Alert 2009

  • A list of synonmous forms can be returned and also how you move between them like how steps in derivations are shown. thanks

    Wolfram Blog : Future Directions of Wolfram|Alpha 2009

  • Mezzofanti, a very Tower of Babel in dialects and languages, said of the Provencal, that it was the only patois of the Middle Ages, with its numerous derivations from the Greek, the Arabic, and the Latin, which has survived the various revolutions of language.

    Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1891

  • Mezzofanti, a very Tower of Babel in dialects and languages, said of the Provencal, that it was the only patois of the Middle Ages, with its numerous derivations from the Greek, the Arabic, and the Latin, which has survived the various revolutions of language.

    Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Samuel Smiles 1858

  • But not only the “Graeculi”; e.g. Parkhurst’s good old derivations from the Heb.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I find word derivations really interesting - can we say keep "tunnelling" away in place of "digging" away?

    Czech English Words No 1 - Tunnelling Praguetory 2006

  • Socrates 'humour in the Cratylus is at least partly directed at his own uncharacteristic boldness in declaiming long strings of word derivations, contrary to his familiar disavowal of expert knowledge about anything.

    Plato's Cratylus Sedley, David 2006

  • About then, too, influenced by having heard Bimbi often explain word derivations, I quietly started another correspondence course-in Latin.

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964

  • All keyword derivations, concatenations, and common misspellings are identified during this stage of the process.

    Newswire Today - Free Newswire - Press Releases Distribution 2010

  • One perspective is to provide information regarding name derivations, giving brief explanations about the origins of family names.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 3 1978

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