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härledning — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • 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.

Senses

härledning is used for these senses in English:

  • deduction The ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason
  • derivation (mathematics, calculus) The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first.

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.

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.

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