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Ableitung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • construe noun A translation.
  • deduction noun An amount subtracted from a total, such as from wages or taxable income.
  • derivation noun A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
  • derivative adj Copying or imitating someone else's work rather than being original.
  • dissipation noun The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
  • revulsion noun A strong feeling of disgust or repugnance.
  • slope noun A stretch of ground that rises or falls at an angle; or the steepness of any such surface or line.

Senses

Ableitung is used for these senses in English:

  • construe An interpretation.
  • deduction (logic) A process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true.
  • derivative Something derived.
  • derivative The value of such a derived function for a given value of its independent variable: the rate of change of a function at a point in its domain.
  • derived function (calculus) Of a function, another function, the value of which for any value of the independent variable is the instantaneous rate of change of the given function at that value of the independent variable.
  • dissipation (physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system.
  • revulsion (medicine) The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
  • slope (mathematics, of a curve at a given point; sometimes proscribed, see Usage notes) The slope of the line tangent to the curve at the given point.

construe — full definition

  1. noun A translation.
  2. noun An interpretation.

deduction — full definition

  1. noun An amount subtracted from a total, such as from wages or taxable income.
  2. noun A conclusion reached through logical reasoning, moving from general principles to a specific result; also the reasoning process itself.

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