origins

noun

1. 1.The beginning of something.
2. 2.The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
3. 3.The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
4. 4.The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
5. 5.An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.