origin

nguồn gốc, khởi đầu, nguồn

1. The beginning of something.Sự khởi đầu của một điều gì đó.
2. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.Nguồn của sông, thông tin, hàng hóa, v.v.
3. The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
4. The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
5. An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.

• The custom has its origin in ancient Greece.
• Scientists are studying the origin of the universe.