Ableitung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- construe noun A piece of writing changed from one language into another.
- deduction noun An amount subtracted from a total, such as from wages or taxable income.
- derivation noun The channeling of water away from a river or other source.
- derivative adj Copying or imitating someone else's work rather than being original.
- dissipation noun The process of scattering or spreading something out until it disappears, or the waste this causes.
- 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
- noun A piece of writing changed from one language into another.
- noun A particular way of understanding something.
deduction — full definition
- noun An amount subtracted from a total, such as from wages or taxable income.
- noun A conclusion reached through logical reasoning, moving from general principles to a specific result; also the reasoning process itself.
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