дериват — meaning in English

English meaning

• derivative adj Copying or imitating someone else's work rather than being original.

Senses

дериват is used for these senses in English:

• derivative (chemistry) A chemical derived from another.
• derivative (of a function of a single variable f(x)) The derived function of f(x): the function giving the instantaneous rate of change of f; equivalently, the function giving the slope of the line tangent to the graph of f. Written f'(x) or \frac{df}{dx} in Leibniz's notation, \dot{f}(x) in Newton's notation (the latter used particularly when the independent variable is time).
• derivative (calculus) One of the two fundamental objects of study in calculus (the other being integration), which quantifies the rate of change, tangency, and other qualities arising from the local behavior of a function.

derivative — full definition

1. adj Copying or imitating someone else's work rather than being original.
2. noun A financial contract whose value is based on an underlying asset, such as a stock or commodity.
3. noun In mathematics, a measure of how a function's output changes as its input changes; the rate of change or slope.

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