origins

Noun

origin (plural origins)

1. The beginning of something.
   • place of origin

   Synonyms:

   beginning

2. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
   • It is clear that the origin of the truth would be an admirable criterion of this sort, if only the various origins could be discriminated from one another from this point of view, and the history of dogmatic opinion shows that origin has always been a favorite test. Origin in immediate intuition...1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   source

3. The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.

   Synonyms:

   zero vector

4. The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
5. An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
6. (in plural) Ancestry.

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