Derivation — meaning in English
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English meaning
- derivation noun The channeling of water away from a river or other 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 The channeling of water away from a river or other source.
- noun The process of obtaining something, such as a result or an idea, from an original source.
- noun The tracing of where something, such as a word, first came from.
- noun (linguistics) The creation of a new word by changing an existing word's base or adding a prefix or suffix 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.
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