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    • origin :the place where something begins, where it springs into being
      • the Italian beginning of the Renaissance|Jupiter was the origin of the radiation|Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River|communism's Russian root

    • origin :properties attributable to your ancestry
      • he comes from good origins

    • origin :the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived
      • the rumor had its origin in idle gossip|vegetable origins|mineral origin|origin in sensation

    • origin :the descendants of one individual
      • his entire lineage has been warriors

    • origin :an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

      • origin :the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero

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