An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DERIVATIONS
Noun
derivations
plural of derivation
Source: Wiktionary
DERIVATION
Der`i*va"tion, n. Etym: [L. derivatio: cf. F. dérivation. See Derive.]
1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. [Obs.] T. Burnet.
2. The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence. As touching traditional communication, . . . I do not doubt but many of those truths have had the help of that derivation. Sir M. Hale.
3. The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root.
4. The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
5. That from which a thing is derived.
6. That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction. From the Euphrates into an artificial derivation of that river. Gibbon.
7. (Math.)
Definition: The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration.
8. (Med.)
Definition: A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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