origin: Meaning and Definition of

or•i•gin

1. something from which anything arises or is derived; source; fountainhead: to follow a stream to its origin.
2. rise or derivation from a particular source: the origin of a word.
3. the first stage of existence; beginning: the origin of Quakerism in America.
4. ancestry; parentage; extraction: to be of Scottish origin.
1. the point of derivation.
2. the more fixed portion of a muscle.
1. the point in a Cartesian coordinate system where the axes intersect.
2. Also calledpole.the point from which rays designating specific angles originate in a polar coordinate system with no axes.