derivativeadj.n.
/dɪˈrɪvətɪv/ A. adj.† 1.
a. Characterized by transmission, or passing from one to another. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > transference > [adjective] > transmitting or passing on > transmitted or passed on > able to be
communicablea1533
conveyable1577
transmittable1611
traducible1633
derivative1637
derivable1640
transmissible1644
propagatory1652
transmigrable1689
propagablea1707
transmissive1709
1637 W. Laud Speech in Starr-chamber Ep. Ded. sig. A4 What Honour can You hope for, either Present, or derivative to Posterity if you attend your Government no better..?
1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xxx A derivative and spreading injury..dishonouring a man..in the eyes of the world.
b. Medicine. Producing derivation; see derivation n.1 1c.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [adjective] > repelling or drawing off
percussivea1398
repercussivea1398
repulsive?a1425
back-driving1562
repellent1575
revelling1592
depulsivec1615
repercutient1676
repellant1730
derivative1854
derivant1876
1854 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 265/1 Derivative, having power to turn aside, or convert, as it were, from one disease to another; applied to certain medicines which seem to act in this manner, as blisters, rubefacients, epispastics.
1881 W. B. Hunter in Encycl. Brit. XII. 544 [article Hydropathy] It is stimulative, derivative, depurative, sudorific, and alterative.
1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Derivative bleeding, a term applied to that method of treatment of a disease by bleeding when the blood is removed from a part of the body far away from the seat of the disease, as in bleeding from the toe in head affections.
2.
a. Of derived character or nature; characterized by being derived, drawn, obtained, or deduced from another; coming or emanating from a source.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [adjective] > originated or derived
secondary1398
extract1483
sprungc1485
derivatea1513
extraughtc1515
derivative1530
derived1600
deductive1646
originated1647
originate1679
unprimitive1684
excretitious1820
originant1825
derivational1843
originary1886
extracted1903
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 310/1 Deryvatyfe, deriuatif.
1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aiij The..vse of Geometrie: and of his second, dependyng, deriuatiue commodities.
1629 W. Prynne Church of Englands Old Antithesis 85 It must either bee an acquisite, deriuatiue, or an infused quality.
1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 84 Not an Original but a derivative Passion.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 432. ⁋7 They can only gain a secondary and derivative kind of Fame.
1817 J. Bentham Parl. Reform Catech. (1818) 18 The distinction between a self-formed and a derivative judgment.
1866 Duke of Argyll Reign of Law ii. 64 The secondary or derivative senses of the word have supplanted the primary signification.
1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Derivative circulation, term applied to the direct communication which exists between arteries and veins in some parts of the body, so that all the blood does not necessarily pass through the capillaries of these parts.
b. Deriving authority, etc. from another.
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society > authority > delegated authority > [adjective] > deriving authority from another
derivative1765
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 83 The courts of the arch-bishops and bishops and their derivative officers.
c. Grammar. Formed from another word; not primitive.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [adjective] > derivative
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 79 The pronownes derivatyves have thre accidentes.
1795 L. Murray Eng. Gram. 17 A derivative word, is a primitive or simple word, with the addition of one or more syllables.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 18 To have a distinction in the primitive and not in the derivative word is always confusing.
d. Law. (See quots.)
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1793 N. Chipman Rep. & Diss. i. 39 The title of W. S. being void.., the subsequent or derivative titles must likewise be void.
1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 178/1 Derivative Conveyances, secondary deeds which presuppose some other conveyance primary or precedent, and only serve to enlarge, confirm, alter, restrain, restore, or transfer the interest granted by such original conveyance. They are releases, confirmations, surrenders, assignments, and defeasanses.
1871 W. Markby Elem. Law §350 Derivative possession is the possession which one person has of the property of another.
1892 Law Times 93 458/2 The plaintiff was a derivative mortgagee, being a mortgagee of one A. E. P——, who was a mortgagee of the defendant.
3. Of or pertaining to a theory of derivation; derivational.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [adjective]
developing1808
evolutionary1810
evolutive1823
evolutional1862
derivative1871
historical1875
evolutionistic1885
transformistic1887
pre-evolutionary1889
1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man i. iii. 97 Philosophers of the derivative school of morals formerly assumed that the foundation of morality lay in a form of selfishness; but more recently in the ‘Greatest Happiness’ principle.
4. Geology.
a. Of fossils: occurring in rocks other than those to which they are native.
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1871 C. Lyell Student's Elem. Geol. Index Derivative shells of the Red Crag.
1894 J. Geikie Great Ice Age (ed. 3) 371 The shells which they occasionally contain are probably, in most cases, derivative—they do not occupy the positions in which the molluscs themselves lived.
b. Of rocks: formed from materials derived from older rocks.
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1900 J. E. Marr Sci. Study Scenery ii. 9 The derivative class has been formed by accumulation of material..not having been in a state of fusion immediately before its accumulation.
1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 155/1 Conglomerates, sandstones, shales, and clays are good examples of derivative rocks.
5. derivative action n. U.S. Law an action brought by a shareholder in order to enforce a legal right of the corporation.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > a lawsuit > other types of action
mort d'ancestora1325
trespass on the case1429
action of detinue1467
mortancestry1471
replevin1515
non-finding1525
nisi prius1533
faint action1542
interpleadera1558
improbationc1575
assize1577
assumpsit1586
transitory action1594
trover1594
suit of the King's peace1607
detinuea1626
quia timet1628
choke-baila1637
reprobator1672
spulyie1678
petitory action1681
proprium1695
restitution of conjugal rights1720
amicable suit1768
noxal action1774
real action1818
witness action1892
class suit1894
non-jury1897
foreclosure action1905
class action1910
derivative action1934
paternity suit1945
1934 N.Y. Suppl. CCLXIX. 361 Judgment obtained in derivative action by stockholders against directors of corporation is bar to actions by other stockholders for same relief, as to questions decided or which might have been decided.
1946 U.S. Rep. (Supreme Court) 324 105 It is a misnomer to speak of the filing of the petition on behalf of the corporation as a derivative action.
1972 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 22 Dec. 1/7 Appeal from dismissal of shareholder's derivative action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
B. n.
1. A thing of derived character; a thing flowing, proceeding, or originating from another.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > that which originates from something else
daughtereOE
outcasting1340
impc1380
childa1398
outgrowing?a1425
proventc1451
provenuec1487
excrescency1545
sprig1575
procedure?1577
proceed1578
derivative1593
offspring1596
superfetation1603
excression1610
shootc1610
excretion1615
slip1627
excrescence1633
derivation1641
derivate1660
offshoot1801
offtracta1806
deduction1835
outgrowth1837
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 81 b The third deriuatiue of Delicacie, is sloth.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. ii. 43 Honor, 'Tis a deriuatiue from me to mine, And onely that I stand for. View more context for this quotation
1625 Darcie Ann. ⁋v b Vnskilfulnesse and her deriuatiues, Doubt and Falsity.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 103 The Arabick..Howbeit, 'tis no original, but a derivative from the Hebrew.
1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 52 Subordinate dæmons, which they supposed to be emanations and derivatives from their chief Deity.
1865 J. B. Mozley 8 Lect. Miracles v. 98 Testimony is thus reduced to a mere derivative of experience.
2. Grammar. A word derived from another by some process of word-formation; any word which is not a primitive word or root.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > derivation > word derived from another
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 74 Of pronownes some be primitives, some be derivatives.
1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xxi. 247 Som mark would be giuen vnder euery deriuatiue, in each roote.
a1637 B. Jonson Eng. Gram. i. iii, in Wks. (1640) III In Derivatives, or Compounds of the sharp e..as Agreeing, of agree.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pref. The derivatives I have referred to their primitives, with an accuracy sometimes needless.
1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 2 The use of a Greek derivative gives notice that you are scientific.
1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) ii. 55 When we turn from Argos to its derivative Argeioi we find [etc.].
3. Mathematics. A function derived from another; spec. a differential coefficient.
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the world > relative properties > number > calculus > [noun] > differential calculus > differentiation > derivative
derivativea1690
fluxion1704
differential coefficient1708
differential coefficient1786
first derivative1852
a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 456 Derivatives of the third Sort..are next to be exhibited.
1846 A. Cayley Wks. I. 95 The derivative of any number of the derivatives of one or more functions..is itself a derivative of the original functions.
1881 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism (ed. 2) I. 8 The first derivatives of a continuous function may be discontinuous.
4. Music.
a. A chord derived from a fundamental chord, esp. by inversion.
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1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Derivative..In music, a chord not fundamental.
1872 H. C. Banister Text-bk. Mus. (1877) xi. 45 These chords, with their mutations or inflexions, their inversions and their derivatives..are all the chords used in music.
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b. ‘The actual or supposed root or generator, from the harmonics of which a chord is derived’ (Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms).
5. Chemistry. A compound obtained from another, e.g. by partial replacement.
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1863 H. Watts Dict. Chem. I. 46 Amic acids..can decompose either as hydrates (derivatives of water), or as amides (derivatives of ammonia).
1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius v. 152 Ferric oxide has been of late regarded as a derivative from ferric chloride.
1880 Act 43 & 44 Vict. c. 24 §130 The use of methylated spirits, or any derivative thereof, in the preparation of..chloroform.
6. Medicine. A method or agent that produces derivation n.1 1c.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [noun] > drawing medicine
attractivea1400
attrahent1786
derivative1843
1843 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 78 He had..found it useful as a derivative, removing, when worn on the head, obstinate chronic ophthalmia.
1858 J. Copland Dict. Pract. Med. III. ii. 1170/1 External derivatives, and exutories have been advised for phthisis.
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5. Engineering. Of, pertaining to, or designating a control element whose output is a linear function of the derivative (the rate of change) of its input.
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society > occupation and work > industry > engineering > [adjective] > type of control element
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1944 E. S. Smith Automatic Control Engin. v. 83 A rate, or derivative, component..is required for stability with some classes of systems in which the plant lags are consecutively compounded.
1946 Mech. Engin. 68 136/2 Derivative Action is that in which there is a predetermined relation between a derivative function of the controlled variable and position of a final control element.
1957 E. B. Jones Instrument Technol. III. ii. 99 Derivative action may be added to proportional action or to proportional plus integral action by introducing a second restriction known as the ‘derivative restriction’ into the line connecting the nozzle to the proportioning bellows.
1981 P. W. Murrill Fund. Process Control Theory v. 58 By adding derivative action to the controller, lead is added in the controller to compensate for lag around the loop.
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A. adj. Finance. Having a value deriving from an underlying variable asset. See derivative n.
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1948 D. Dillard Econ. J. M. Keynes 184 Deposits which result directly from the lending and investing activities of individual banks..are called ‘derivative’ deposits, as distinguished from ‘primary’ deposits which result from the actual deposit of cash.
1976 Jrnl. Finance 31 383 A derivative asset is a security whose value is explicitly dependent on the exogenously given value of some underlying primitive asset on which the option is written.
1984 Barron's 17 Sept. 79/3 (advt.) The rapid growth of equity based on derivative products and their ever-increasing volume and order flow are calling for systematized trading capabilities.
1994 Wall St. Jrnl. 25 Feb. c17/3 At Banc One, investors turned skeptical not over the banking company's operating results, but more over what they perceived as the risk of Banc One's exposure to derivative securities.
1999 J. Sainsbury plc Ann. Rep. & Accts. 21/1 In this context Group policy permits the use of derivative instruments but they may only be used to reduce exposures arising from underlying business activities and not for speculative purposes.
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B. n. Finance. An arrangement or instrument (such as a future, option, or warrant) whose value derives from and is dependent upon the value of an underlying variable asset, such as a commodity, currency, or security. Usually in plural.
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1985 Pensions & Investment Age 16 Sept. 51/1 When the partnership sees the direction of the market decline, it will sell, or short, the derivatives.
1989 Times 10 Nov. 37/5 The biggest growth in derivatives business has been in the over-the-counter markets in options.
1992 Economist 8 Aug. 75/1 Futures funds make much of their ability to take short as well as long positions. But you can short stock without using derivatives; and you can shield yourself from falling markets by moving into cash.
1997 Guardian 6 Mar. (Online section) 4/3 The market in derivatives, which barters against the changing value of anything from coal to currencies, is now so fast, so intermeshed and the packages traded so complex that the risks attached to a deal may not be at all obvious.
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