ALL meanings of origin
or·i·gin
O o - noun origin Anatomy. the point of derivation. the more fixed portion of a muscle. 1
- noun origin Mathematics. the point in a Cartesian coordinate system where the axes intersect. Also called pole. the point from which rays designating specific angles originate and are measured from in a polar coordinate system with no axes. 1
- noun origin beginning, source 1
- noun origin early stage of existence 1
- noun origin ancestry, descent 1
- noun origin mathematics 1
- noun origin The beginning of something's existence. 1
- noun origin something from which anything arises or is derived; source; fountainhead: to follow a stream to its origin. 1
- noun origin rise or derivation from a particular source: the origin of a word. 1
- noun origin the first stage of existence; beginning: the origin of Quakerism in America. 1
- noun origin ancestry; parentage; extraction: to be of Scottish origin. 1
- variable noun origin You can refer to the beginning, cause, or source of something as its origin or origins. 0
- countable noun origin When you talk about a person's origin or origins, you are referring to the country, race, or social class of their parents or ancestors. 0
- noun origin a primary source; derivation 0
- noun origin the beginning of something; first stage or part 0
- noun origin ancestry or parentage; birth; extraction 0
- noun origin the end of a muscle, opposite its point of insertion 0
- noun origin the beginning of a nerve or blood vessel or the site where it first starts to branch out 0
- noun origin the point of intersection of coordinate axes or planes 0
- noun origin the point whose coordinates are all zero 0
- noun origin the country from which a commodity or product originates 0
- noun origin a coming into existence or use; beginning 0
- noun origin parentage; birth; lineage 0
- noun origin that in which something has its beginning; source; root; cause 0
- noun origin the less movable of the two points of attachment of a muscle, usually the end attached to the more rigid part of the skeleton 0
- noun origin in a system of Cartesian coordinates, the point at which the axes intersect; base point where the abscissa and ordinate equal zero 0
- noun origin any zero reference point from which measurement begins 0