- derivation
- n1. drawing, accounting, deriving, inferring, deducing, concluding; acquisition, obtain-ment, borrowing, procurement.2. origin, source, spring, wellspring; fountainhead, head, fountain, fount, springhead; foundation, origination, beginning, commencement; cause, causation, Latin, fons et origo; development, rise, evolution, growth; formation, root, etymology.3. derivative, illation, induction; conclusion, inference, deduction; consequence, corollary.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.