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Adjective
- resulting from or employing derivation
- a highly derivative prose style
Noun
- (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word
- `electricity' is a derivative of `electric'
- a financial instrument whose value is based on another security
- a compound obtained from, or regarded as derived from, another compound
- the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx