derivational
/der-uh-vey-shuhn/US // ˌdɛr əˈveɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌdɛrɪˈveɪʃən) //
派生,衍生,引申,衍生的
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n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the act or fact of deriving or of being derived.
- : the process of deriving.
- : the source from which something is derived; origin.
- : something that is or has been derived; derivative.
- : Mathematics. development of a theorem.differentiation.
- : Grammar. the process or device of adding affixes to or changing the shape of a base, thereby assigning the result to a form class that may undergo further inflection or participate in different syntactic constructions, as in forming service from serve, song from sing, and hardness from hard.the systematic description of such processes in a given language.
- : Linguistics. a set of forms, including the initial form, intermediate forms, and final form, showing the successive stages in the generation of a sentence as the rules of a generative grammar are applied to it.the process by which such a set of forms is derived.
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Examples
I also had the nerve to find minor gaps in certain derivations that just didn’t sit right with me.
The French adopt the same derivation, calling it "asbeste" (minèral filamenteux et incombustible).
Its similarity with the numerous derivatives of the verb damno have probably obscured the true derivation of the word.
His method is hence inductive,--the derivation of certain principles from a sum of given facts and phenomena.
In a word, the term contains a series of expressive innuendos by its etymological derivation.
Another etymological example sometimes cited is the derivation of the English uncle from the Latin avus.
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