Dictionary Definition
origination
Noun
2 the act of starting something for the first
time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her
initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific
society"; "he regards the fork as a modern introduction" [syn:
initiation, founding, foundation, institution, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
Extensive Definition
Origination in VOIP telephony refers
to calls that originate in the Public Switched Telephone
Network. These calls are carried to their destination over the
Internet.
References
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
A, alpha, artifact, authorship, babyhood, beginning, beginnings, birth, blast-off, brainchild, child, childhood, coinage, commencement, composition, conception, concoction, contrivance, contriving, cradle, creation, creative effort,
creature, crowning
achievement, cutting edge, dawn, derivation, devising, distillation, edge, effect, end product, essence, establishment, extract, fabrication, flying start,
foundation, fresh
start, freshman year, fruit, generation, genesis, grass roots, handiwork, hatching, head, improvisation, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, institution, invention, issue, jump-off, kick-off, leading
edge, making do, manufacture, masterpiece, masterwork, mintage, nascence, nascency, nativity, new departure, new
mintage, offspring,
oncoming, onset, opening, opera, opus, opuscule, origin, original, outbreak, outcome, outgrowth, outset, parturition, pregnancy, product, production, provenience, radical, radix, result, rise, root, running start, send-off,
setting in motion, setting-up, source, square one, start, start-off, starting point,
stem, stock, take-off, taproot, work, youth