origin
IPA: ˈɔrʌdʒʌn
noun
- The beginning of something.
- The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
- (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
- (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
- (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
- (in the plural) Ancestry.
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Examples of "origin" in Sentences
- The original sense of the source is distorted.
- The original reference was the source the error.
- The original source of the donation was not recorded.
- The Egyptians are the original source of the Atlantis myth.
- The image source is supposed to be the origin of the image.
- Due deference must be given to the original source of the word.
- According to the source of the article, the page is the original.
- Citation of the original source of the information is appreciated.
- The source is not precise to verify the origin of the inconsitency.
- The term is not original to the beginning of the energy crises of the 70's.
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