Definition of derivative in English:

derivative

adjective dɪˈrɪvətɪvdəˈrɪvədɪv

1Imitative of the work of another artist, writer, etc., and usually disapproved of for that reason.
（尤指艺术家或艺术作品）模仿的，缺乏独创性的
an artist who is not in the slightest bit derivative
没有丝毫模仿痕迹的画家。
Example sentencesExamples
- If I take the Grimm stories, and make a new derivative work out of them, I get a new copyright, even though the old work is still in the public domain.
- I suppose she is a cultural phenomenon that cannot be ignored, but I find her programme, and the derivative imitators to be deadly dull and no substitute for actual thought.
- Part of this attitude is indicative of an anxiety that film might still be regarded as a derivative medium, always in any comparison a poor imitation of literature.
- Instead, it is a mélange of mainstream-friendly comedy and storytelling on the theme of love - brutally honest and quite funny, if somewhat derivative.
- It's equally hard to find good things to say about the meandering plot or the derivative music of the film.
- Buyers were delighted to have something to sell, but I felt that the show was too derivative, and betrayed a lack of the energy and fire that made him such an entertaining part of our fashion week.
- And so I started switching from these endless derivative novels to trying to write parts for actors, and I've been doing so ever since.
- This underscores the derivative nature of his performance and this movie.
- Would Fitzgerald have been disappointed by the derivative script grounded in the conventions of the nineteenth-century realist novel?
- All art, all thought was a creative activity, not an imitative or derivative one.
- The state-of-the-art animation techniques and the space flight sequences look impressive, but fail to inject any excitement into the lifeless and derivative plot.
- The whole album is so fresh and so distantly related to anything that has come out in years that it begs for attention in a sea of Pop Idols, derivative rock/metal and endless amounts of Hip Hop.
- This assumption has moreover been used to portray Native American writing as derivative and imitative of Western literary traditions.
- They customarily provided a plan or plot summary of the new offering, a convention that made the repetitive and derivative nature of modern playwriting all the more obvious.
- When you are depressed and isolated anything you write is totally derivative and self-obsessed.
- However, he is not a derivative imitator of classic Japanese cinema, but one of its original though sadly neglected film-makers.
- For a musical about one the century's most original artists, there was a whole lot of derivative going on.
- It can play towards the determination of whether the case is a full-on copyright case or whether it is a case of the infringer creating a derivative work.
- He will release the derivative work as an MP3 single.
- Moreover, says the performer, that painful experience is what led Shakespeare to become more than a sharp-tongued wit, more than the derivative writers of his era and ours.
Synonyms
imitative, unoriginal, uninventive, non-innovative, unimaginative, uninspired
copied, plagiarized, plagiaristic, second-hand, secondary, echoic
trite, hackneyed, clichéd, stale, tired, worn out, flat, rehashed, warmed-up, stock, banal
informal copycat, cribbed, old hat, hacky
1. 1.1 Originating from, based on, or influenced by.
  受…影响的，以…为基础的，源自…的
  Darwin's work is derivative of the moral philosophers
  达尔文的工作受到伦理学家的影响。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I particularly remember a poem which was very derivative of English poetry called ‘Fugue’ by Neville Dawes, a Jamaican novelist and poet.
  With gameplay more derivative of the Harlem Globetrotters than the NBA, players bust insane ankle-breaking moves to confuse and fake out opponents on their way to the hoop.
  More derivative software based on the company's code is likely soon.
  In 1913 he was overwhelmed by the European modernism exhibited at the Armory Show and his style entered an eclectic, derivative phase, influenced by Gauguin, Matisse, and van Gogh.
  The curators must exhibit art that clearly demonstrates the relationship between the two schools - which often means showing the modern work that is most derivative of the Spanish example.
2Finance
attributive (of a product) having a value deriving from an underlying variable asset.
（金融产品）衍生的
equity-based derivative products
基于股权的衍生产品。
Example sentencesExamples
- This is because they buy complex derivative products to mirror the performance of the underlying stock market index or indices which are not transparently priced.
- Given recent developments in calculation and derivative products, new opportunities are now available in portfolio construction and trading.
- Foreign banks have a more sophisticated system for evaluating and pricing credit risks associated with derivative products.
- It is possible to use unrealized gains in financial assets (including derivative contracts) as collateral for further purchases.
- These include equities, bonds, currencies and more complex derivative products such as futures and option products.

noun dɪˈrɪvətɪvdəˈrɪvədɪv

1Something which is based on another source.
派生物，衍生物
the aircraft is a derivative of the Falcon 20G
这种飞机是猎鹰20G的改型。
Example sentencesExamples
- Permit others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and derivative works based upon it only for noncommercial purposes.
- A copyleft is a copyright notice on a piece of software that permits unrestricted redistribution and modification, provided that all copies and derivatives retain the same permissions.
- He related the ornament, as we do today to the art of such insular manuscripts as the Book of Kells and the Book of Durrow; indeed, he saw Pictish art as derivative from these sources.
- The modern territorial state upon which it was based was a derivative of the Italian Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation.
- The hull is a new design rather than a derivative of an older system.
- Thus, the holders of Barrie's copyright claim a perpetual right to control derivative works based on Peter Pan, even though the original work passed into the public domain.
- International trade include import, export and re-export of live and animal trophies, plants and parts and derivatives thereof, based on a permit certification system.
- What it does require is a willingness to use derivatives or maintain a short interest, and these, of course, are verboten, because so many people can't be bothered to understand such things.
- These products, legally acceptable as chocolate in other EU countries, are defined in Italy as ‘chocolate derivatives.’
- And many people obviously rely on the good old Swiss Army knife or one of its derivatives for everything from trimming nails and opening bottles to putting in screws and whittling firesticks.
- The importance of scrutinizing food labels to determine sources of eggs, egg derivatives, and egg substitutes can't be stressed enough.
- This includes promises that school meals will not contain foods labelled as containing GM ingredients and that prepackaged foods known to contain GM derivatives will not be sold.
- Because of the complexity of these derivatives, we chose to analyze the different sources of variation involved in the likelihood separately.
- The scope of this bibliography is limited to studies on Shakespeare television adaptations and derivatives and does not include musical versions or operas based on the plays.
Synonyms
by-product, spin-off, offshoot, subsidiary product
1. 1.1 A word derived from another or from a root in the same or another language.
  派生词
  ‘fly-tip’ is a derivative of the phrase ‘on the fly’
  Example sentencesExamples
  Their last names are both easily understood derivatives of verbs that became professional designations.
  The word ‘sex’ and its derivatives were not used in our sense then.
  He uses derivatives of the word ‘mesmerise’ in too many places.
  Because, even as a kid, I was fascinated by the way people expressed themselves, it wasn't long before I came across a London derivative of London back-slang.
  Morphological words for which the feminine form revealed the silent consonant ending were spelled more easily than morphological words for which the derivatives were other nouns or verbs.
  In the Greek-Latin languages and their derivatives we find this same root appearing as super, sphere, spore and spirit to mention just a few that are relevant to the subject at hand.
  All the words for actual (kinds of) snow have been removed, and I'm ignoring the extensive polysemy of snow and many of its derivatives.
  However, contemporaries now subscribe to the notion that the term brioche is a derivative of the Norman word for pound, broyer.
  While primarily a place for the administration of justice, its name is a derivative of the Latin root officium and it is considered a landmark in the evolution of the office as a building type.
  And you could write down just as many derivatives of any other root: fish, or coffee, or excrement.
  They called the wine tintashu, combining the Japanese word for sake with a derivative of the Portuguese word for red.
  Plagiarism - a derivative of the Latin word for kidnapping - literally means to steal someone else's words or ideas and take credit for them.
  And they were our distant brothers and not unlike the Romance languages that you know, the Italians and the Spaniards and the French all come from a Latin derivative or Latin root.
  Her name was a derivative of the French word for ‘friend’.
  The name of the plant descends from Old English rapum ‘turnip’, while the crime is a derivative of the Latin verb rapere ‘to seize’.
  The term tempura is a derivative of the Portuguese tempuras, meaning Friday, the day on which Christians were forbidden to consume meat.
  It is a derivative of the verb sozo, which means ‘to heal.’
  For English, such forms are usually those of INDO-EUROPEAN ROOTS and their derivatives, or Romanic and Germanic roots.
  Every barbarian language had an equivalent term, and all of them were based on a derivative of that language's word for fury.
  The word nucleus is a derivative of the Latin word nux, meaning nut or kernel.
  Synonyms
  derived word, descendant
2. 1.2 A substance that is derived chemically from a specified compound.
  衍生物
  crack is a highly addictive cocaine derivative
  强效纯可卡因是极易上瘾的可卡因衍生物。
  Example sentencesExamples
  For example, the alcohol derivative of methane is methanol and of ethane is ethanol.
  The principal UVB absorbers are para-aminobenzoic acid derivatives, salicylates, cinnamates and camphor derivatives and microfine titanium dioxide.
  For example, methyl butyrate, a derivative of butyric acid, smells like apples.
  Moricizine is a phenothiazine derivative, without significant activity on the dopaminergic system.
  Industrially, phosphoric acid and its derivatives are used in metal cleaning and treatment.
  Synonyms
  by-product, spin-off, offshoot, subsidiary product
2often derivativesFinance
An arrangement or product (such as a future, option, or warrant) whose value derives from and is dependent on the value of an underlying asset, such as a commodity, currency, or security.
金融衍生产品，金融衍生工具
as modifier the derivatives market
衍生市场。
Example sentencesExamples
- As markets move, as interest rates rise and fall, as currencies move in value against each other, the fair values of these financial assets and derivatives can change dramatically.
- Futures and options are derivatives because their value depends on the price of the underlying asset, be it a commodity, investment or index.
- So far, doubts have centred on dealings in shares and derivatives that are based on movements in share prices.
- Hedge fund managers also invest in derivatives, options, futures and other exotic or sophisticated securities.
- There will probably be more legislation to regulate the derivatives market in the future.
3Mathematics
An expression representing the rate of change of a function with respect to an independent variable.
〔数〕导数，微商
Example sentencesExamples
- The following applet, for example, helps observe the relations between a function and its derivative and integral with not a single formula involved.
- He found the standard addition formulas for hyperbolic functions, their derivatives and their relation to the exponential function.
- These include singular solutions to differential equations, a change of variables formula, and a way of relating the derivative of a function to the derivative of the inverse function.
- The first general rule allows us to calculate the derivative of two functions which have been added together.
- He undertook a large-scale work on generalised differential equations in functional derivatives.

Derivatives

derivatively

adverb

The word for hour by the end of the fourth century was hora; earlier this same word had meant ‘season’ and, derivatively, ‘fitting or appointed time.’
Example sentencesExamples
- Aesthetic qualities he conceived either as intrinsic qualities of mind, or, derivatively, as the qualities of objects of design.
- Assuming that they stuck to the ideology of interventionism, the policymakers would respond yet again with a new intervention to correct for the second and, derivatively, for the first.
- Now that we have begun to produce energy directly in nuclear power plants of our own design and construction, we are merely tapping the universal energy source that previously we have used only indirectly and derivatively.
- Individual acts of racial or gender discrimination do so only derivatively, by reinforcing the systemic violation.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the adjective sense 'having the power to draw off', and in the noun sense 'a word derived from another'): from French dérivatif, -ive, from Latin derivativus, from derivare (see derive).

Definition of derivative in US English:

derivative

adjectivedəˈrivədivdəˈrɪvədɪv

1(typically of an artist or work of art) imitative of the work of another person, and usually disapproved of for that reason.
（尤指艺术家或艺术作品）模仿的，缺乏独创性的
an artist who is not in the slightest bit derivative
没有丝毫模仿痕迹的画家。
Example sentencesExamples
- The whole album is so fresh and so distantly related to anything that has come out in years that it begs for attention in a sea of Pop Idols, derivative rock/metal and endless amounts of Hip Hop.
- However, he is not a derivative imitator of classic Japanese cinema, but one of its original though sadly neglected film-makers.
- Part of this attitude is indicative of an anxiety that film might still be regarded as a derivative medium, always in any comparison a poor imitation of literature.
- It's equally hard to find good things to say about the meandering plot or the derivative music of the film.
- It can play towards the determination of whether the case is a full-on copyright case or whether it is a case of the infringer creating a derivative work.
- He will release the derivative work as an MP3 single.
- This assumption has moreover been used to portray Native American writing as derivative and imitative of Western literary traditions.
- The state-of-the-art animation techniques and the space flight sequences look impressive, but fail to inject any excitement into the lifeless and derivative plot.
- Moreover, says the performer, that painful experience is what led Shakespeare to become more than a sharp-tongued wit, more than the derivative writers of his era and ours.
- If I take the Grimm stories, and make a new derivative work out of them, I get a new copyright, even though the old work is still in the public domain.
- For a musical about one the century's most original artists, there was a whole lot of derivative going on.
- Buyers were delighted to have something to sell, but I felt that the show was too derivative, and betrayed a lack of the energy and fire that made him such an entertaining part of our fashion week.
- Would Fitzgerald have been disappointed by the derivative script grounded in the conventions of the nineteenth-century realist novel?
- Instead, it is a mélange of mainstream-friendly comedy and storytelling on the theme of love - brutally honest and quite funny, if somewhat derivative.
- I suppose she is a cultural phenomenon that cannot be ignored, but I find her programme, and the derivative imitators to be deadly dull and no substitute for actual thought.
- This underscores the derivative nature of his performance and this movie.
- And so I started switching from these endless derivative novels to trying to write parts for actors, and I've been doing so ever since.
- They customarily provided a plan or plot summary of the new offering, a convention that made the repetitive and derivative nature of modern playwriting all the more obvious.
- When you are depressed and isolated anything you write is totally derivative and self-obsessed.
- All art, all thought was a creative activity, not an imitative or derivative one.
Synonyms
imitative, unoriginal, uninventive, non-innovative, unimaginative, uninspired
1. 1.1 Originating from, based on, or influenced by.
  受…影响的，以…为基础的，源自…的
  Darwin's work is derivative of the moral philosophers
  达尔文的工作受到伦理学家的影响。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In 1913 he was overwhelmed by the European modernism exhibited at the Armory Show and his style entered an eclectic, derivative phase, influenced by Gauguin, Matisse, and van Gogh.
  More derivative software based on the company's code is likely soon.
  The curators must exhibit art that clearly demonstrates the relationship between the two schools - which often means showing the modern work that is most derivative of the Spanish example.
  I particularly remember a poem which was very derivative of English poetry called ‘Fugue’ by Neville Dawes, a Jamaican novelist and poet.
  With gameplay more derivative of the Harlem Globetrotters than the NBA, players bust insane ankle-breaking moves to confuse and fake out opponents on their way to the hoop.
2. 1.2attributive (of a financial product) having a value deriving from an underlying variable asset.
  （金融产品）衍生的
  equity-based derivative products
  基于股权的衍生产品。
  Example sentencesExamples
  These include equities, bonds, currencies and more complex derivative products such as futures and option products.
  It is possible to use unrealized gains in financial assets (including derivative contracts) as collateral for further purchases.
  Foreign banks have a more sophisticated system for evaluating and pricing credit risks associated with derivative products.
  This is because they buy complex derivative products to mirror the performance of the underlying stock market index or indices which are not transparently priced.
  Given recent developments in calculation and derivative products, new opportunities are now available in portfolio construction and trading.

noundəˈrivədivdəˈrɪvədɪv

1Something that is based on another source.
派生物，衍生物
a derivative of the system was chosen for the Marine Corps’ V-22 tilt rotor aircraft
Example sentencesExamples
- This includes promises that school meals will not contain foods labelled as containing GM ingredients and that prepackaged foods known to contain GM derivatives will not be sold.
- Permit others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and derivative works based upon it only for noncommercial purposes.
- The importance of scrutinizing food labels to determine sources of eggs, egg derivatives, and egg substitutes can't be stressed enough.
- And many people obviously rely on the good old Swiss Army knife or one of its derivatives for everything from trimming nails and opening bottles to putting in screws and whittling firesticks.
- Because of the complexity of these derivatives, we chose to analyze the different sources of variation involved in the likelihood separately.
- What it does require is a willingness to use derivatives or maintain a short interest, and these, of course, are verboten, because so many people can't be bothered to understand such things.
- The modern territorial state upon which it was based was a derivative of the Italian Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation.
- The scope of this bibliography is limited to studies on Shakespeare television adaptations and derivatives and does not include musical versions or operas based on the plays.
- These products, legally acceptable as chocolate in other EU countries, are defined in Italy as ‘chocolate derivatives.’
- A copyleft is a copyright notice on a piece of software that permits unrestricted redistribution and modification, provided that all copies and derivatives retain the same permissions.
- Thus, the holders of Barrie's copyright claim a perpetual right to control derivative works based on Peter Pan, even though the original work passed into the public domain.
- The hull is a new design rather than a derivative of an older system.
- He related the ornament, as we do today to the art of such insular manuscripts as the Book of Kells and the Book of Durrow; indeed, he saw Pictish art as derivative from these sources.
- International trade include import, export and re-export of live and animal trophies, plants and parts and derivatives thereof, based on a permit certification system.
Synonyms
by-product, spin-off, offshoot, subsidiary product
1. 1.1often derivatives An arrangement or instrument (such as a future, option, or warrant) whose value derives from and is dependent on the value of an underlying asset.
  金融衍生产品，金融衍生工具
  as modifier the derivatives market
  衍生市场。
  Example sentencesExamples
  As markets move, as interest rates rise and fall, as currencies move in value against each other, the fair values of these financial assets and derivatives can change dramatically.
  There will probably be more legislation to regulate the derivatives market in the future.
  Hedge fund managers also invest in derivatives, options, futures and other exotic or sophisticated securities.
  Futures and options are derivatives because their value depends on the price of the underlying asset, be it a commodity, investment or index.
  So far, doubts have centred on dealings in shares and derivatives that are based on movements in share prices.
2. 1.2 A word derived from another or from a root in the same or another language.
  派生词
  Example sentencesExamples
  The term tempura is a derivative of the Portuguese tempuras, meaning Friday, the day on which Christians were forbidden to consume meat.
  In the Greek-Latin languages and their derivatives we find this same root appearing as super, sphere, spore and spirit to mention just a few that are relevant to the subject at hand.
  Because, even as a kid, I was fascinated by the way people expressed themselves, it wasn't long before I came across a London derivative of London back-slang.
  The word nucleus is a derivative of the Latin word nux, meaning nut or kernel.
  Her name was a derivative of the French word for ‘friend’.
  All the words for actual (kinds of) snow have been removed, and I'm ignoring the extensive polysemy of snow and many of its derivatives.
  It is a derivative of the verb sozo, which means ‘to heal.’
  He uses derivatives of the word ‘mesmerise’ in too many places.
  Their last names are both easily understood derivatives of verbs that became professional designations.
  However, contemporaries now subscribe to the notion that the term brioche is a derivative of the Norman word for pound, broyer.
  While primarily a place for the administration of justice, its name is a derivative of the Latin root officium and it is considered a landmark in the evolution of the office as a building type.
  They called the wine tintashu, combining the Japanese word for sake with a derivative of the Portuguese word for red.
  The word ‘sex’ and its derivatives were not used in our sense then.
  Plagiarism - a derivative of the Latin word for kidnapping - literally means to steal someone else's words or ideas and take credit for them.
  And you could write down just as many derivatives of any other root: fish, or coffee, or excrement.
  Every barbarian language had an equivalent term, and all of them were based on a derivative of that language's word for fury.
  The name of the plant descends from Old English rapum ‘turnip’, while the crime is a derivative of the Latin verb rapere ‘to seize’.
  For English, such forms are usually those of INDO-EUROPEAN ROOTS and their derivatives, or Romanic and Germanic roots.
  And they were our distant brothers and not unlike the Romance languages that you know, the Italians and the Spaniards and the French all come from a Latin derivative or Latin root.
  Morphological words for which the feminine form revealed the silent consonant ending were spelled more easily than morphological words for which the derivatives were other nouns or verbs.
  Synonyms
  derived word, descendant
3. 1.3 A substance that is derived chemically from a specified compound.
  衍生物
  crack is a highly addictive cocaine derivative
  强效纯可卡因是极易上瘾的可卡因衍生物。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Industrially, phosphoric acid and its derivatives are used in metal cleaning and treatment.
  Moricizine is a phenothiazine derivative, without significant activity on the dopaminergic system.
  The principal UVB absorbers are para-aminobenzoic acid derivatives, salicylates, cinnamates and camphor derivatives and microfine titanium dioxide.
  For example, the alcohol derivative of methane is methanol and of ethane is ethanol.
  For example, methyl butyrate, a derivative of butyric acid, smells like apples.
  Synonyms
  by-product, spin-off, offshoot, subsidiary product
4. 1.4Mathematics An expression representing the rate of change of a function with respect to an independent variable.
  〔数〕导数，微商
  Example sentencesExamples
  He undertook a large-scale work on generalised differential equations in functional derivatives.
  The first general rule allows us to calculate the derivative of two functions which have been added together.
  These include singular solutions to differential equations, a change of variables formula, and a way of relating the derivative of a function to the derivative of the inverse function.
  He found the standard addition formulas for hyperbolic functions, their derivatives and their relation to the exponential function.
  The following applet, for example, helps observe the relations between a function and its derivative and integral with not a single formula involved.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the adjective sense ‘having the power to draw off’, and in the noun sense ‘a word derived from another’): from French dérivatif, -ive, from Latin derivativus, from derivare (see derive).

词汇	derivative
释义	Definition of derivative in English: derivative adjective dɪˈrɪvətɪvdəˈrɪvədɪv 1Imitative of the work of another artist, writer, etc., and usually disapproved of for that reason. （尤指艺术家或艺术作品）模仿的，缺乏独创性的 an artist who is not in the slightest bit derivative 没有丝毫模仿痕迹的画家。 Example sentencesExamples If I take the Grimm stories, and make a new derivative work out of them, I get a new copyright, even though the old work is still in the public domain. I suppose she is a cultural phenomenon that cannot be ignored, but I find her programme, and the derivative imitators to be deadly dull and no substitute for actual thought. Part of this attitude is indicative of an anxiety that film might still be regarded as a derivative medium, always in any comparison a poor imitation of literature. Instead, it is a mélange of mainstream-friendly comedy and storytelling on the theme of love - brutally honest and quite funny, if somewhat derivative. It's equally hard to find good things to say about the meandering plot or the derivative music of the film. Buyers were delighted to have something to sell, but I felt that the show was too derivative, and betrayed a lack of the energy and fire that made him such an entertaining part of our fashion week. And so I started switching from these endless derivative novels to trying to write parts for actors, and I've been doing so ever since. This underscores the derivative nature of his performance and this movie. Would Fitzgerald have been disappointed by the derivative script grounded in the conventions of the nineteenth-century realist novel? All art, all thought was a creative activity, not an imitative or derivative one. The state-of-the-art animation techniques and the space flight sequences look impressive, but fail to inject any excitement into the lifeless and derivative plot. The whole album is so fresh and so distantly related to anything that has come out in years that it begs for attention in a sea of Pop Idols, derivative rock/metal and endless amounts of Hip Hop. This assumption has moreover been used to portray Native American writing as derivative and imitative of Western literary traditions. They customarily provided a plan or plot summary of the new offering, a convention that made the repetitive and derivative nature of modern playwriting all the more obvious. When you are depressed and isolated anything you write is totally derivative and self-obsessed. However, he is not a derivative imitator of classic Japanese cinema, but one of its original though sadly neglected film-makers. For a musical about one the century's most original artists, there was a whole lot of derivative going on. It can play towards the determination of whether the case is a full-on copyright case or whether it is a case of the infringer creating a derivative work. He will release the derivative work as an MP3 single. Moreover, says the performer, that painful experience is what led Shakespeare to become more than a sharp-tongued wit, more than the derivative writers of his era and ours. Synonyms imitative, unoriginal, uninventive, non-innovative, unimaginative, uninspired copied, plagiarized, plagiaristic, second-hand, secondary, echoic trite, hackneyed, clichéd, stale, tired, worn out, flat, rehashed, warmed-up, stock, banal informal copycat, cribbed, old hat, hacky 1.1 Originating from, based on, or influenced by. 受…影响的，以…为基础的，源自…的 Darwin's work is derivative of the moral philosophers 达尔文的工作受到伦理学家的影响。 Example sentencesExamples I particularly remember a poem which was very derivative of English poetry called ‘Fugue’ by Neville Dawes, a Jamaican novelist and poet. With gameplay more derivative of the Harlem Globetrotters than the NBA, players bust insane ankle-breaking moves to confuse and fake out opponents on their way to the hoop. More derivative software based on the company's code is likely soon. In 1913 he was overwhelmed by the European modernism exhibited at the Armory Show and his style entered an eclectic, derivative phase, influenced by Gauguin, Matisse, and van Gogh. The curators must exhibit art that clearly demonstrates the relationship between the two schools - which often means showing the modern work that is most derivative of the Spanish example. 2Finance attributive (of a product) having a value deriving from an underlying variable asset. （金融产品）衍生的 equity-based derivative products 基于股权的衍生产品。 Example sentencesExamples This is because they buy complex derivative products to mirror the performance of the underlying stock market index or indices which are not transparently priced. Given recent developments in calculation and derivative products, new opportunities are now available in portfolio construction and trading. Foreign banks have a more sophisticated system for evaluating and pricing credit risks associated with derivative products. It is possible to use unrealized gains in financial assets (including derivative contracts) as collateral for further purchases. These include equities, bonds, currencies and more complex derivative products such as futures and option products. noun dɪˈrɪvətɪvdəˈrɪvədɪv 1Something which is based on another source. 派生物，衍生物 the aircraft is a derivative of the Falcon 20G 这种飞机是猎鹰20G的改型。 Example sentencesExamples Permit others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and derivative works based upon it only for noncommercial purposes. A copyleft is a copyright notice on a piece of software that permits unrestricted redistribution and modification, provided that all copies and derivatives retain the same permissions. He related the ornament, as we do today to the art of such insular manuscripts as the Book of Kells and the Book of Durrow; indeed, he saw Pictish art as derivative from these sources. The modern territorial state upon which it was based was a derivative of the Italian Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation. The hull is a new design rather than a derivative of an older system. Thus, the holders of Barrie's copyright claim a perpetual right to control derivative works based on Peter Pan, even though the original work passed into the public domain. International trade include import, export and re-export of live and animal trophies, plants and parts and derivatives thereof, based on a permit certification system. What it does require is a willingness to use derivatives or maintain a short interest, and these, of course, are verboten, because so many people can't be bothered to understand such things. These products, legally acceptable as chocolate in other EU countries, are defined in Italy as ‘chocolate derivatives.’ And many people obviously rely on the good old Swiss Army knife or one of its derivatives for everything from trimming nails and opening bottles to putting in screws and whittling firesticks. The importance of scrutinizing food labels to determine sources of eggs, egg derivatives, and egg substitutes can't be stressed enough. This includes promises that school meals will not contain foods labelled as containing GM ingredients and that prepackaged foods known to contain GM derivatives will not be sold. Because of the complexity of these derivatives, we chose to analyze the different sources of variation involved in the likelihood separately. The scope of this bibliography is limited to studies on Shakespeare television adaptations and derivatives and does not include musical versions or operas based on the plays. Synonyms by-product, spin-off, offshoot, subsidiary product 1.1 A word derived from another or from a root in the same or another language. 派生词 ‘fly-tip’ is a derivative of the phrase ‘on the fly’ Example sentencesExamples Their last names are both easily understood derivatives of verbs that became professional designations. The word ‘sex’ and its derivatives were not used in our sense then. He uses derivatives of the word ‘mesmerise’ in too many places. Because, even as a kid, I was fascinated by the way people expressed themselves, it wasn't long before I came across a London derivative of London back-slang. Morphological words for which the feminine form revealed the silent consonant ending were spelled more easily than morphological words for which the derivatives were other nouns or verbs. In the Greek-Latin languages and their derivatives we find this same root appearing as super, sphere, spore and spirit to mention just a few that are relevant to the subject at hand. All the words for actual (kinds of) snow have been removed, and I'm ignoring the extensive polysemy of snow and many of its derivatives. However, contemporaries now subscribe to the notion that the term brioche is a derivative of the Norman word for pound, broyer. While primarily a place for the administration of justice, its name is a derivative of the Latin root officium and it is considered a landmark in the evolution of the office as a building type. And you could write down just as many derivatives of any other root: fish, or coffee, or excrement. They called the wine tintashu, combining the Japanese word for sake with a derivative of the Portuguese word for red. Plagiarism - a derivative of the Latin word for kidnapping - literally means to steal someone else's words or ideas and take credit for them. And they were our distant brothers and not unlike the Romance languages that you know, the Italians and the Spaniards and the French all come from a Latin derivative or Latin root. Her name was a derivative of the French word for ‘friend’. The name of the plant descends from Old English rapum ‘turnip’, while the crime is a derivative of the Latin verb rapere ‘to seize’. The term tempura is a derivative of the Portuguese tempuras, meaning Friday, the day on which Christians were forbidden to consume meat. It is a derivative of the verb sozo, which means ‘to heal.’ For English, such forms are usually those of INDO-EUROPEAN ROOTS and their derivatives, or Romanic and Germanic roots. Every barbarian language had an equivalent term, and all of them were based on a derivative of that language's word for fury. The word nucleus is a derivative of the Latin word nux, meaning nut or kernel. Synonyms derived word, descendant 1.2 A substance that is derived chemically from a specified compound. 衍生物 crack is a highly addictive cocaine derivative 强效纯可卡因是极易上瘾的可卡因衍生物。 Example sentencesExamples For example, the alcohol derivative of methane is methanol and of ethane is ethanol. The principal UVB absorbers are para-aminobenzoic acid derivatives, salicylates, cinnamates and camphor derivatives and microfine titanium dioxide. For example, methyl butyrate, a derivative of butyric acid, smells like apples. Moricizine is a phenothiazine derivative, without significant activity on the dopaminergic system. Industrially, phosphoric acid and its derivatives are used in metal cleaning and treatment. Synonyms by-product, spin-off, offshoot, subsidiary product 2often derivativesFinance An arrangement or product (such as a future, option, or warrant) whose value derives from and is dependent on the value of an underlying asset, such as a commodity, currency, or security. 金融衍生产品，金融衍生工具 as modifier the derivatives market 衍生市场。 Example sentencesExamples As markets move, as interest rates rise and fall, as currencies move in value against each other, the fair values of these financial assets and derivatives can change dramatically. Futures and options are derivatives because their value depends on the price of the underlying asset, be it a commodity, investment or index. So far, doubts have centred on dealings in shares and derivatives that are based on movements in share prices. Hedge fund managers also invest in derivatives, options, futures and other exotic or sophisticated securities. There will probably be more legislation to regulate the derivatives market in the future. 3Mathematics An expression representing the rate of change of a function with respect to an independent variable. 〔数〕导数，微商 Example sentencesExamples The following applet, for example, helps observe the relations between a function and its derivative and integral with not a single formula involved. He found the standard addition formulas for hyperbolic functions, their derivatives and their relation to the exponential function. These include singular solutions to differential equations, a change of variables formula, and a way of relating the derivative of a function to the derivative of the inverse function. The first general rule allows us to calculate the derivative of two functions which have been added together. He undertook a large-scale work on generalised differential equations in functional derivatives. Derivatives derivatively adverb The word for hour by the end of the fourth century was hora; earlier this same word had meant ‘season’ and, derivatively, ‘fitting or appointed time.’ Example sentencesExamples Aesthetic qualities he conceived either as intrinsic qualities of mind, or, derivatively, as the qualities of objects of design. Assuming that they stuck to the ideology of interventionism, the policymakers would respond yet again with a new intervention to correct for the second and, derivatively, for the first. Now that we have begun to produce energy directly in nuclear power plants of our own design and construction, we are merely tapping the universal energy source that previously we have used only indirectly and derivatively. Individual acts of racial or gender discrimination do so only derivatively, by reinforcing the systemic violation. Origin Late Middle English (in the adjective sense 'having the power to draw off', and in the noun sense 'a word derived from another'): from French dérivatif, -ive, from Latin derivativus, from derivare (see derive). Definition of derivative in US English: derivative adjectivedəˈrivədivdəˈrɪvədɪv 1(typically of an artist or work of art) imitative of the work of another person, and usually disapproved of for that reason. （尤指艺术家或艺术作品）模仿的，缺乏独创性的 an artist who is not in the slightest bit derivative 没有丝毫模仿痕迹的画家。 Example sentencesExamples The whole album is so fresh and so distantly related to anything that has come out in years that it begs for attention in a sea of Pop Idols, derivative rock/metal and endless amounts of Hip Hop. However, he is not a derivative imitator of classic Japanese cinema, but one of its original though sadly neglected film-makers. Part of this attitude is indicative of an anxiety that film might still be regarded as a derivative medium, always in any comparison a poor imitation of literature. It's equally hard to find good things to say about the meandering plot or the derivative music of the film. It can play towards the determination of whether the case is a full-on copyright case or whether it is a case of the infringer creating a derivative work. He will release the derivative work as an MP3 single. This assumption has moreover been used to portray Native American writing as derivative and imitative of Western literary traditions. The state-of-the-art animation techniques and the space flight sequences look impressive, but fail to inject any excitement into the lifeless and derivative plot. Moreover, says the performer, that painful experience is what led Shakespeare to become more than a sharp-tongued wit, more than the derivative writers of his era and ours. If I take the Grimm stories, and make a new derivative work out of them, I get a new copyright, even though the old work is still in the public domain. For a musical about one the century's most original artists, there was a whole lot of derivative going on. Buyers were delighted to have something to sell, but I felt that the show was too derivative, and betrayed a lack of the energy and fire that made him such an entertaining part of our fashion week. Would Fitzgerald have been disappointed by the derivative script grounded in the conventions of the nineteenth-century realist novel? Instead, it is a mélange of mainstream-friendly comedy and storytelling on the theme of love - brutally honest and quite funny, if somewhat derivative. I suppose she is a cultural phenomenon that cannot be ignored, but I find her programme, and the derivative imitators to be deadly dull and no substitute for actual thought. This underscores the derivative nature of his performance and this movie. And so I started switching from these endless derivative novels to trying to write parts for actors, and I've been doing so ever since. They customarily provided a plan or plot summary of the new offering, a convention that made the repetitive and derivative nature of modern playwriting all the more obvious. When you are depressed and isolated anything you write is totally derivative and self-obsessed. All art, all thought was a creative activity, not an imitative or derivative one. Synonyms imitative, unoriginal, uninventive, non-innovative, unimaginative, uninspired 1.1 Originating from, based on, or influenced by. 受…影响的，以…为基础的，源自…的 Darwin's work is derivative of the moral philosophers 达尔文的工作受到伦理学家的影响。 Example sentencesExamples In 1913 he was overwhelmed by the European modernism exhibited at the Armory Show and his style entered an eclectic, derivative phase, influenced by Gauguin, Matisse, and van Gogh. More derivative software based on the company's code is likely soon. The curators must exhibit art that clearly demonstrates the relationship between the two schools - which often means showing the modern work that is most derivative of the Spanish example. I particularly remember a poem which was very derivative of English poetry called ‘Fugue’ by Neville Dawes, a Jamaican novelist and poet. With gameplay more derivative of the Harlem Globetrotters than the NBA, players bust insane ankle-breaking moves to confuse and fake out opponents on their way to the hoop. 1.2attributive (of a financial product) having a value deriving from an underlying variable asset. （金融产品）衍生的 equity-based derivative products 基于股权的衍生产品。 Example sentencesExamples These include equities, bonds, currencies and more complex derivative products such as futures and option products. It is possible to use unrealized gains in financial assets (including derivative contracts) as collateral for further purchases. Foreign banks have a more sophisticated system for evaluating and pricing credit risks associated with derivative products. This is because they buy complex derivative products to mirror the performance of the underlying stock market index or indices which are not transparently priced. Given recent developments in calculation and derivative products, new opportunities are now available in portfolio construction and trading. noundəˈrivədivdəˈrɪvədɪv 1Something that is based on another source. 派生物，衍生物 a derivative of the system was chosen for the Marine Corps’ V-22 tilt rotor aircraft Example sentencesExamples This includes promises that school meals will not contain foods labelled as containing GM ingredients and that prepackaged foods known to contain GM derivatives will not be sold. Permit others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and derivative works based upon it only for noncommercial purposes. The importance of scrutinizing food labels to determine sources of eggs, egg derivatives, and egg substitutes can't be stressed enough. And many people obviously rely on the good old Swiss Army knife or one of its derivatives for everything from trimming nails and opening bottles to putting in screws and whittling firesticks. Because of the complexity of these derivatives, we chose to analyze the different sources of variation involved in the likelihood separately. What it does require is a willingness to use derivatives or maintain a short interest, and these, of course, are verboten, because so many people can't be bothered to understand such things. The modern territorial state upon which it was based was a derivative of the Italian Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation. The scope of this bibliography is limited to studies on Shakespeare television adaptations and derivatives and does not include musical versions or operas based on the plays. These products, legally acceptable as chocolate in other EU countries, are defined in Italy as ‘chocolate derivatives.’ A copyleft is a copyright notice on a piece of software that permits unrestricted redistribution and modification, provided that all copies and derivatives retain the same permissions. Thus, the holders of Barrie's copyright claim a perpetual right to control derivative works based on Peter Pan, even though the original work passed into the public domain. The hull is a new design rather than a derivative of an older system. He related the ornament, as we do today to the art of such insular manuscripts as the Book of Kells and the Book of Durrow; indeed, he saw Pictish art as derivative from these sources. International trade include import, export and re-export of live and animal trophies, plants and parts and derivatives thereof, based on a permit certification system. Synonyms by-product, spin-off, offshoot, subsidiary product 1.1often derivatives An arrangement or instrument (such as a future, option, or warrant) whose value derives from and is dependent on the value of an underlying asset. 金融衍生产品，金融衍生工具 as modifier the derivatives market 衍生市场。 Example sentencesExamples As markets move, as interest rates rise and fall, as currencies move in value against each other, the fair values of these financial assets and derivatives can change dramatically. There will probably be more legislation to regulate the derivatives market in the future. Hedge fund managers also invest in derivatives, options, futures and other exotic or sophisticated securities. Futures and options are derivatives because their value depends on the price of the underlying asset, be it a commodity, investment or index. So far, doubts have centred on dealings in shares and derivatives that are based on movements in share prices. 1.2 A word derived from another or from a root in the same or another language. 派生词 Example sentencesExamples The term tempura is a derivative of the Portuguese tempuras, meaning Friday, the day on which Christians were forbidden to consume meat. In the Greek-Latin languages and their derivatives we find this same root appearing as super, sphere, spore and spirit to mention just a few that are relevant to the subject at hand. Because, even as a kid, I was fascinated by the way people expressed themselves, it wasn't long before I came across a London derivative of London back-slang. The word nucleus is a derivative of the Latin word nux, meaning nut or kernel. Her name was a derivative of the French word for ‘friend’. All the words for actual (kinds of) snow have been removed, and I'm ignoring the extensive polysemy of snow and many of its derivatives. It is a derivative of the verb sozo, which means ‘to heal.’ He uses derivatives of the word ‘mesmerise’ in too many places. Their last names are both easily understood derivatives of verbs that became professional designations. However, contemporaries now subscribe to the notion that the term brioche is a derivative of the Norman word for pound, broyer. While primarily a place for the administration of justice, its name is a derivative of the Latin root officium and it is considered a landmark in the evolution of the office as a building type. They called the wine tintashu, combining the Japanese word for sake with a derivative of the Portuguese word for red. The word ‘sex’ and its derivatives were not used in our sense then. Plagiarism - a derivative of the Latin word for kidnapping - literally means to steal someone else's words or ideas and take credit for them. And you could write down just as many derivatives of any other root: fish, or coffee, or excrement. Every barbarian language had an equivalent term, and all of them were based on a derivative of that language's word for fury. The name of the plant descends from Old English rapum ‘turnip’, while the crime is a derivative of the Latin verb rapere ‘to seize’. For English, such forms are usually those of INDO-EUROPEAN ROOTS and their derivatives, or Romanic and Germanic roots. And they were our distant brothers and not unlike the Romance languages that you know, the Italians and the Spaniards and the French all come from a Latin derivative or Latin root. Morphological words for which the feminine form revealed the silent consonant ending were spelled more easily than morphological words for which the derivatives were other nouns or verbs. Synonyms derived word, descendant 1.3 A substance that is derived chemically from a specified compound. 衍生物 crack is a highly addictive cocaine derivative 强效纯可卡因是极易上瘾的可卡因衍生物。 Example sentencesExamples Industrially, phosphoric acid and its derivatives are used in metal cleaning and treatment. Moricizine is a phenothiazine derivative, without significant activity on the dopaminergic system. The principal UVB absorbers are para-aminobenzoic acid derivatives, salicylates, cinnamates and camphor derivatives and microfine titanium dioxide. For example, the alcohol derivative of methane is methanol and of ethane is ethanol. For example, methyl butyrate, a derivative of butyric acid, smells like apples. Synonyms by-product, spin-off, offshoot, subsidiary product 1.4Mathematics An expression representing the rate of change of a function with respect to an independent variable. 〔数〕导数，微商 Example sentencesExamples He undertook a large-scale work on generalised differential equations in functional derivatives. The first general rule allows us to calculate the derivative of two functions which have been added together. These include singular solutions to differential equations, a change of variables formula, and a way of relating the derivative of a function to the derivative of the inverse function. He found the standard addition formulas for hyperbolic functions, their derivatives and their relation to the exponential function. The following applet, for example, helps observe the relations between a function and its derivative and integral with not a single formula involved. Origin Late Middle English (in the adjective sense ‘having the power to draw off’, and in the noun sense ‘a word derived from another’): from French dérivatif, -ive, from Latin derivativus, from derivare (see derive).
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