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Plural of derivation

regular plural

The plural of derivation is derivations.

Forms of derivation

Singularderivation /ˌdɛ.ɹɪˈveɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
Pluralderivations
Countablecountable and uncountable

Derivations in a sentence

  • There were also letters to scientists and other scholars, pages of derivations of mathematics and physics formulae, and copious writings on alchemy and religion.2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2025
  • My cheap dictionary is not the authority on word derivations.From the entry authority
  • Furthermore, we give the definitions of the generalized derivations, quasiderivations, center derivations, centroids and quasicentroids.2016, Jinsen Zhou, Guangzhe Fan, “Generalized derivations of n-Hom Lie superalgebras”, in arXiv. From the entry quasicentroids
  • The resulting derivations are tritransitive applicative constructions.2016, Jean Josephine Chavula, Verbal Derivation and Valency in Citumbuka, Utrecht: LOT, →ISBN, page 114. From the entry tritransitive
  • The ideal of uncontroversial checkability of mathematical arguments, however, seems to be related to formal derivations rather than scribblings on napkins.2008 March 21, Bernd Buldt, Benedikt Löwe, Thomas Müller, “Towards a New Epistemology of Mathematics”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 3…. From the entry checkability

Meaning of derivation

  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).

Full definition of derivation

Questions about the plural of derivation

What is the plural of derivation?
The plural of derivation is derivations.
Is derivation countable?
Derivation is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: derivation (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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