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Another word for derivative

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Adjective

  1. Stemming from an original source

    See also:

    kin

Noun

  1. Something derived from another

      1. A divestiture by a corporation of a division or subsidiary by issuing to stockholders shares in a new company set up to continue the operations of the division or subsidiary.
      2. The new company formed by such a divestiture.
      3. Something, such as a product, that is derived from something larger and more or less unrelated; a byproduct.
      1. The act or process of growing out.
      2. A product of growing out; a projecting part or offshoot:
      3. A result or consequence:
      1. Something that branches out or derives its existence or origin from a particular source.
      2. A branch, descendant, or member of a family or social group.
      3. A lateral shoot from the main stem of a plant.
      1. One whose descent can be traced to a particular individual or group:
      2. Something derived from a prototype or earlier form:
      3. In astrology, the point of the ecliptic or the sign of the zodiac that sets in the west at the time of a person's birth or other event.
      1. The act or process of deriving.
      2. The state or fact of being derived; origination:
      3. Something derived; a derivative.
      1. Something produced in the making of something else.
      2. A secondary result; a side effect.
    See also:

    kin

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Another word for derivative

Modifier
  1. See also:

    secondary

    ancestral

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Sentence Examples

  • The later Scots Chaucerian type is less directly derivative in its treatment of allegory and in its tricks of style, and less southern in its linguistic forms; but, though it is more original and natural, it nevertheless retains much of the Chaucerian habit.

  • in the Nif'al form nisba`, " to swear," in the derivative subst.

  • Thiourea and many of its unsymmetrical derivatives have marked physiological action; thiourea causes a slowing of the pulse and respiration, cardiac failure, and death in convulsions; phenyl-, ethyland acetyl-thiourea are actively toxic. The most important derivative pharmacologically is allyl-thiourea, also known as thiosinamine or rhodallin, NH2 CS NH CH2 CH:CH2.

  • From the root idea of obligation to serve or give something in return, involved in the conception of duty, have sprung various derivative uses of the word; thus it is used of the services performed by a minister of a church, by a soldier, or by any employee or servant.

  • It is only in derivative words that this vagueness is avoided.

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