origin
/ˈɒɹ.ə.dʒən/ · noun
Meaning
- The beginning of something.
- The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
- The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
- The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
- An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
- (in the plural) Ancestry.
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