origin
- Noun. The beginning of something.
- Noun. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
- Noun. (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
- Noun. (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
- Noun. (cartography) an arbitrary point on the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
- Noun. (in the plural) ancestry.
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