See Also: Derivative(medicine)
DERIVATIVE(law)
derivative(encyclopedia)
derivative(dictionary)
Sex derivative(health)
Derivative(finance)
Derivative(money)
Derivative instruments(finance)
derivative chromosome(medicine)
DERIVATIVE POWER(law)

derivative (iou)



derivative adjective & noun. LME.
[French derivatif from Latin derivativus pa. pple of derivare: see DERIVE, -ATIVE.]
A. adjective.
Having the effect of transferring or conveying. Chiefly Medicine, having the power to draw off fluid from a diseased part of the body. LME-L19.
Derived or obtained from another; coming from a source; not original. M16.
Steele They can only gain a secondary and derivative kind of Fame. T. Gunn I am..a rather derivative poet. I learn what I can from whom I can.
b. Formed or originating from another word, base, or root. M16.
c. Law. Secondary, subordinate. L18.
d. Geology. Derived from older rocks; (of a fossil) occurring at a site other than the one where it was formed. L19.
e. Finance. Of a financial product: having a value deriving from an underlying variable asset. L20.
b. noun.
A word derived from another word, base, or root by a process of word-formation; a word which is not a root. LME.
J. H. Burton The use of a Greek derivative gives notice that you are scientific.
gen. Something derived; a thing flowing, proceeding, or originating from another. L16.
J. Bryant Subordinate d?mons,..emanations and derivatives from their chief Deity. A. Storr Some dreams..are certainly derivatives of the patient's early childhood.
Math. An expression (obtained by differentiation of a function) which represents the instantaneous rate of change of the function with respect to an independent variable. M19.
first derivative, second derivative, third derivative, etc.: obtained by differentiating a function once, twice, three times, etc. partial derivative: see PARTIAL adjective.
Chemistry. A compound obtained from another by substitution or other simple process. M19.
Medicine. A method or agent that produces derivation (DERIVATION 1). Only in M19.
Finance. An arrangement or instrument (such as a future, option, or warrant) whose value derives from and is dependent on the value of an underlying asset. L20.
derivatively adverb M17.
derivativeness noun M17.