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Derivative   /dərˈɪvətɪv/  /dərˈɪvɪtɪv/   Listen
Derivative

noun
1.
The result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx.  Synonyms: derived function, differential, differential coefficient, first derivative.
2.
A compound obtained from, or regarded as derived from, another compound.
3.
A financial instrument whose value is based on another security.  Synonym: derivative instrument.
4.
(linguistics) a word that is derived from another word.
adjective
1.
Resulting from or employing derivation.  "A highly derivative prose style"



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"Derivative" Quotes from Famous Books



... their embodiment; (v.) totemistic cults; (vi.) cults of secret societies, and individual cults of tutelary animals; (vii.) cults of tree and vegetation spirits; (viii.) cults of ominous animals; (ix.) cults, probably derivative, of animals associated with certain deities; (x.) cults of animals used ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 • Various
... some investigations as to the fluctuations of value: "Hitherto I have examined the derivative laws of value in so far only as they are exemplified in the movements of normal prices. It will be interesting now to consider whether it is possible to discover in the movements of market prices ...
— Principles Of Political Economy • John Stuart Mill
... ecclesiastical history. The only point in which he resembles the historian of Rome, is in that vast range of complete erudition which makes the Past in its minutest details as familiar as the Present, which is never content with derivative information, but traces back every tributary of the great stream of History to its remotest accessible source. In this respect the two eminent historians were alike, but with this point of resemblance the similarity ends. ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 • Various
... fitted to expand itself or ramify, except by analogy. But the other change, the infinity which has been suddenly turned off like a jet of gas, or like the rushing of wind through the tubes of an organ, upon the doctrine and application of spirituality, seems fitted for derivative effects that are innumerable. Consequently, we say of the Non-intrusionists—not only that they are no church; but that they are not even any separate body of Dissenters, until they have published a "Confession" or a revised edition of the ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 • Various
... question of the conditions of growth of the idea of duty as a sovereign and imperial director. Mr. Darwin seems to us not to have perfectly recognised the logical separation between the two sides of the moral sense question. For example, he says (i. 97) that 'philosophers of the derivative school of morals formerly assumed that the foundation of morality lay in a form of Selfishness; but more recently in the Greatest Happiness principle.' But Mr. Mill, to whom Mr. Darwin refers, ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin


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