Usually means: Rate of change in function.
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  1. derivative: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. derivative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. derivative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. derivative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. derivative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Derivative, derivative: Wordnik
  7. derivative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. derivative: Wiktionary
  9. derivative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. derivative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. derivative: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. derivative: Dictionary.com
  13. derivative: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Derivative (calculus), Derivative (chemistry), Derivative (disambiguation), Derivative (finance), Derivative (generalizations), Derivative (linguistics), Derivative (mathematics), Derivative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Derivative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. derivative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. derivative: Rhymezone
  18. Derivative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. derivative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  1. derivative: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
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  6. DERIVATIVE: Accounting Glossary
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  8. Derivative: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  9. Derivative: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
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  12. Derivative: Investopedia
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  14. Derivative (calculus), Derivative (function), Derivative (mathematics), derivative: Legal dictionary
  15. Derivative (calculus), Derivative (finance), Derivative (function), Derivative (mathematics), Derivative: Financial dictionary
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  19. Derivative: Futures and Options Market Terminology

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  2. derivative: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  3. Derivative (calculus), Derivative (function), Derivative (mathematics), derivative: Medical dictionary
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  2. Derivative: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
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  5. derivative, derivative: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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