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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

  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.

descendant — full definition

  1. noun A person related to someone who lived in an earlier generation, such as a child, grandchild, or later relative.
  2. noun Something that develops from, or is a later version of, an earlier thing.

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