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avledning — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • 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.
  • diversion noun Something done to distract attention from what is really happening.
  • tap noun A fitting on a pipe or container that controls the flow of a liquid or gas.

Senses

avledning is used for these senses in English:

  • 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 The channeling of water away from a river or other source.
  2. noun The process of obtaining something, such as a result or an idea, from an original source.
  3. noun The tracing of where something, such as a word, first came from.
  4. 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

  1. adj Copying or imitating someone else's work rather than being original.
  2. noun A financial contract whose value is based on an underlying asset, such as a stock or commodity.
  3. 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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