origination   (Sound)

The noun origination has 2 senses

• origin, origination, inception -- (an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events)


• initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration -- (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")