Abkömmling — meaning in English
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English meaning
- derivative adj Copying or imitating someone else's work rather than being original.
- descendant noun A person related to someone who lived in an earlier generation, such as a child, grandchild, or later relative.
- issue noun A subject or problem that people discuss or disagree about.
- scion noun A descendant of a notable or wealthy family, especially the first generation.
- young adjective In an early stage of life; not yet old.
Senses
Abkömmling is used for these senses in English:
- derivative (chemistry) A chemical derived from another.
- descendant One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
- descendant (biology) A later evolutionary type.
- issue The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
- issue (law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
- scion A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.
- young (often as if a plural noun) Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals.
derivative — full definition
- adj Copying or imitating someone else's work rather than being original.
- noun A financial contract whose value is based on an underlying asset, such as a stock or commodity.
- noun In mathematics, a measure of how a function's output changes as its input changes; the rate of change or slope.
descendant — full definition
- noun A person related to someone who lived in an earlier generation, such as a child, grandchild, or later relative.
- noun Something that develops from, or is a later version of, an earlier thing.