How to Use derivation in a Sentence

derivation

noun

• Scientists are debating the possible derivation of birds from dinosaurs.
• The name Harlow is a derivation of his father’s stage name.
  — Julian Voloj, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Sep. 2021
• Not sure of her derivation of Lambuleh, or Lamby, but he was called that for the next 93 years.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Aug. 2021
• It is named for the Latin derivation for Copenhagen, the city in which the metal was discovered.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 9 Jan. 2023
• In other derivations, Samshin beats the baby blue, until it is forced from the womb.
  — Longreads, 1 Aug. 2017
• The elaboration could have nothing to do with the wild path of the answer derivation.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• The Met has a fantastic show of Mexican painting up right now, and all of that art has a Catholic derivation.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 20 May 2018
• The derivation of the name Saigon is somewhat vague and centers around its water location.
  — Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• The derivation of the name Saigon is somewhat vague and centers around its water location.
  — Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• But there were just enough difference that the derivation was not a replication.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 May 2012
• Everything old is new again, though with some slight derivations.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Card games are most common—poker, euchre, a derivation of spades called Snarples.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• Here two most famous red wines are Veneroso - a derivation of the family name - and Nambrot, which was the first name of the founder of the family.
  — Tom Hyland, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• The rest—the skyscrapers and supermarkets and weddings—were just a matter of derivation.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
• Would the Shakers have approved of Simons’s derivation?
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 26 Aug. 2022
• There is no comics counterpart to Riella, but her name comes from a derivation of Aunt May’s last name: Reilly.
  — Dan Gvozden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 June 2023
• Work it off in local style aboard a Bellyak, a kayak derivation in which paddlers lie on their bellies and use their hands, clad in webbed gloves, to paddle.
  — Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2019
• Major League Baseball provided 27 names the Sox chose and 16 of them are some derivation of their first or last names or their initials.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2019
• So what's the problem with students taking a picture in class of a physics solution or the derivation of an equation?
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2022
• The actual derivation is from the 17th-century French picnique, and has nothing to do with race.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2019
• Whatever its derivation, the Greyback presides over gamey country in the Wyoming Range of western Wyoming.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 2 May 2023
• Soul and its pop derivations grew directly from gospel’s breakthroughs.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2019
• There is plenty there for the Democrats, not only the derivation of the dossier and the working with Russian officials to generate it through Christopher Steele.
  — Fox News, 14 Sep. 2018
• Over the years, single-member districts became the unquestioned norm and any derivation from them the strange exception.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 31 Dec. 2020
• The researchers' equation contains over 20 parameters, and the derivation appears more akin to math charting the path of spaceships.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2016
• In a derivation from the season-long trend of spending too much time on the penalty kill, the Stars possessed the puck enough to draw five penalties in the second period, including three on Manson.
  — Dallas News, 26 Nov. 2022
• Correction: clarified the derivation of one of the percentages.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2020
• The derivation isn’t surprising on its own (no one would mistake a typical Roman for a feminist).
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 9 May 2018
• Not all of Ylitalo’s creations are so clearly of Asian or Buddhist derivation.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
• Schaefer gives his kids word lists to study, crafts a spelling curriculum, hammers home word roots and language derivations and enlists the help of word games and mini-bees to keep students engaged.
  — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 10 June 2019

Last Updated: 14 Aug 2024