A person’s or thing’s first appearance before society or another audience; one’s “maiden voyage”.
To make one's début.
The beginning of something.
The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
Ancestry.
The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.