Derivation — meaning in English
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English meaning
- derivation noun A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- derivative adj Copying or imitating someone else's work rather than being original.
Senses
Derivation is used for these senses in English:
- derivation (mathematics, calculus) The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first.
derivation — full definition
- noun A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- noun The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
- noun The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
- noun Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
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.