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SOWPODS (Collins Scrabble Words)
OTCWL2014 (NASPA Word List 2014)
TWL06 (NASPA List 2006)
"Derivation" Definition
noun
Linguistics A formal representation or description of the series of ordered linguistic rules and operations that generate a surface structure from a deep structure.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Linguistics A linguistic description of the process of word formation.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Linguistics In generative linguistics, the process by which a surface structure is generated from a deep structure.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Linguistics The process by which words are formed from existing words or bases by adding affixes, as singer from sing or undo from do, by changing the shape of the word or base, as song from sing, or by adding an affix and changing the pronunciation of the word or base, as electricity from electric.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Logic & Mathematics A logical or mathematical process indicating through a sequence of statements that a result such as a theorem or a formula necessarily follows from the initial assumptions.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
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