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Derivation may refer to:
Language
[edit]- Morphological derivation, a word-formation process
- Parse tree or concrete syntax tree, representing a string's syntax in formal grammars
Law
[edit]- Derivative work, in copyright law
- Derivation proceeding, a proceeding in United States patent law
Music
[edit]- The creation of a derived row, in the twelve-tone musical technique
Science and mathematics
[edit]- Derivation (differential algebra), a unary function satisfying the Leibniz product law
- Formal proof or derivation, a sequence of sentences each of which is an axiom or follows from the preceding sentences in the sequence by a rule of inference
- An after-the-fact justification for an action, in the work of sociologist Vilfredo Pareto
See also
[edit]- Derive (disambiguation), for meanings of "derive" and "derived"
- Derivative, in calculus
- Derivative (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Derivation