afledning — meaning in English
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English meaning
- derivation noun The channelling of water away from a river or other source.
- derivative adj Copying or imitating someone else's work rather than being original.
- distraction noun Something that pulls your attention away from what you should be doing.
- diversion noun Something done to distract attention from what is really happening.
Senses
afledning is used for these senses in English:
- derivation (grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
- derivation That which is derived; a derivative; the result of a deduction.
- distraction Something that distracts.
- diversion (military) A tactic used to draw attention away from the real threat or action.
- diversion The act of diverting.
- diversion Removal of water via a canal.
derivation — full definition
- noun The channelling of water away from a river or other source.
- noun The process of obtaining something, such as a result or an idea, from an original source.
- noun The tracing of where something, such as a word, first came from.
- noun (linguistics) The creation of a new word by changing an existing word's base or adding a prefix or suffix to it.
derivative — full definition
- adj Copying or imitating someone else's work rather than being original.
- noun A financial contract whose value is based on an underlying asset, such as a stock or commodity.
- noun In mathematics, a measure of how a function's output changes as its input changes; the rate of change or slope.
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