Usually means: Financial contracts based on underlying.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. derivatives: Merriam-Webster
  2. derivatives: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. derivatives: Collins English Dictionary
  4. derivatives: Vocabulary.com
  5. Derivatives, derivatives: Wordnik
  6. derivatives: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. derivatives: Wiktionary
  8. derivatives: Dictionary.com
  9. Derivatives: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. derivatives: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. derivatives: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. Derivatives: bizterms.net
  4. derivatives: Glossary of research economics
  5. Derivatives: Moneyterms
  6. derivatives: Finance-Glossary.com
  7. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. derivatives: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. derivatives: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Derivatives: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Energy Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (derivative)

adjective:  Obtained by derivation; not radical, original, or fundamental.
adjective:  Imitative of the work of someone else.
adjective:  (law, copyright law) Referring to a work, such as a translation or adaptation, based on another work that may be subject to copyright restrictions.
adjective:  (finance) Having a value that depends on an underlying asset of variable value.
noun:  Something derived.
noun:  (linguistics) A word that derives from another one.
noun:  (finance) A financial instrument whose value depends on the valuation of an underlying asset; such as a warrant, an option etc.
noun:  (chemistry) A chemical derived from another.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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 (df)/(dx) in Leibniz's notation, ̇f(x) in Newton's notation (the latter used particularly when the independent variable is time).
noun:  The value of such a derived function for a given value of its independent variable: the rate of change of a function at a point in its domain.
noun:  (Of more general classes of functions) Any of several related generalizations of the derivative: the directional derivative, partial derivative, Fréchet derivative, functional derivative, etc.
noun:  (generally) The linear operator that maps functions to their derived functions, usually written D; the simplest differential operator.
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