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The instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another
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derivative
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In finance, a derivative is a contract that derives its value from the performance of an underlying entity. This underlying entity can be an asset , index , or interest rate , and is often simply called the " underlying ". Derivatives can be used for a ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Obtained by derivation; not radical, original, or fundamental. 2 imitative of the work of someone else. 3 (context legal copyright English) Referring to a work, such as a translation or adaptation, based on another work that may be subject to copyright ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE financial ▪ Cautious by nature, they have missed money-spinning opportunities in new businesses like portfolio insurance and financial derivatives . ▪ These were the first exchange traded financial derivatives ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Derivative \De*riv"a*tive\, a. [L. derivativus: cf. F. d['e]rivatif.] Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative ...
Usage examples of derivative.
I can run the whole sequence in one pot with about ninety-nine percent yield of the final amantadine derivative.
So perhaps he had an edited cerebral chemistry, or an adaptive aural processing mutation in his derivative Kido lineage.
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Precursors had played a stupendous prank on themthe biota of Desideratum were derivatives or forerunners of those on Agora.
Rubbed together with cerate, or lard, powdered Savin is used for maintaining the sores of blisters, and of issues, open when it is desired to keep up their derivative action.
It is by virtue of this sovereignty alone that the Government, its authorized agent, commands the obedience of the individual citizen, to the extent of its derivative, dependent, and delegated authority.
A technician, in feeding the augmented wheat rust this morning, discovered unwittingly that the ergot has, as predicted, now developed the capacity to generate effective lysergic acid derivatives.
And the gyrfalcon derivative he was carrying was a very sophisticated job of bioengineering.
The aide suggests that they give Anna a Valium derivative, Lorazepam, to calm her down and leaves.
Several years ago, as an experiment, I tried a phenothiazine derivative.
The sestet which followed, to complete the sonnet, was less derivative and therefore less successful, Dame Beatrice thought.
He was closely familiar with the type, a derivative of the British LR5 rescue sub with hydraulic thrusters tiltable through 180 degrees that gave it the agility of a helicopter.
This infinity cannot appear in derivative substances because these descend from that sun by degrees of two kinds in accord with which perfections decline.
In the tank where the benzene solution of peptide derivatives sprayed in tiny bubbles into a water phase, the mixture acted wrong.