Verb

(deriv)

To obtain or receive (something) from something else.

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, title= Ode to Prime Numbers , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}

(logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.

(linguistics) To find the derivation of (a word or phrase).

(chemistry) To create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction.

To originate or stem (from).

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, author=Robert M. Pringle, volume=100, issue=1, page=31, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= How to Be Manipulative , passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}

To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.

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For fear it [water] choke up the pitsthey [the workman] derive it by other drains.

Verb

(en verb)

to be; have existence; have being or reality

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Various relationships may exist between character and glyph:

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, regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards.

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, which will be treated either as an update of the existing character encoding or as a completely new character encoding.