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
- noun A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- 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.
- noun The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
- noun Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
differentiation — full definition
- noun The act or process of differentiating (generally, without a specialized sense).
- 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.
- noun The process of developing distinct components.
- 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.