1 the end of a muscle attached to the bone that does not move when the muscle is used
2 the thing from which something comes, or the place where it began:
[ U ] He studied the origin and development of the nervous system.
[ U ] The population is of Indian or Pakistani origin.
3 the beginning or cause of something:
The origins of this practice date back to the time of the Depression.
Whether entrepreneurs are self-employed or working as employees, they are often at the origin of radical innovations.
4 the place where something was made or came from:
This book finally explodes some of the myths about the origin of the universe.
We must contextualize the problem before we can understand its origin.
We begin our dip into local history by examining the town's origins.
If afterimages are purely retinal in origin, then percepts that depend on binocular combination should not influence the afterimage.
These new parties often had origins in the civil society which was allowed to exist during the authoritarian era.
In seven percent of the cases, the sinus nodal artery took origin from a separate orifice within the same sinus as a major coronary artery.
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