Derivation

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Derivation may refer to:

Language

• Morphological derivation, a word-formation process
• Parse tree or concrete syntax tree, representing a string's syntax in formal grammars

Law

• Derivative work, in copyright law
• Derivation proceeding, a proceeding in United States patent law

Music

• The creation of a derived row, in the twelve-tone musical technique

Science and mathematics

• 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

• Derive (disambiguation), for meanings of "derive" and "derived"
• Derivative, in calculus
• Derivative (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Derivation

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