Derivation

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)
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