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derivación — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • derivation noun A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
  • differentiation noun The act or process of differentiating (generally, without a specialized sense).
  • referral noun The act of sending someone to another person, service, or specialist.
  • tap noun A fitting on a pipe or container that controls the flow of a liquid or gas.

Senses

derivación is used for these senses in English:

  • derivation (mathematics, calculus) The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first.
  • differentiation (mathematics, calculus) The process of applying the derivative operator to a function; of calculating a function's derivative.
  • referral The act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.
  • tap (Britain, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering) A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it; a tapping.

derivation — full definition

  1. noun A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
  2. noun The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
  3. noun The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
  4. noun Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.

differentiation — full definition

  1. noun The act or process of differentiating (generally, without a specialized sense).
  2. noun The act of treating one thing as distinct from another, or of creating such a distinction; of separating a class of things into categories; of describing a thing by illustrating how it is different from something else.
  3. noun The process of developing distinct components.
  4. noun The process by which the components of multicellular life (cells, organs, etc.) are produced and acquire function, as when a seed develops the root and stem, and the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds.

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