Derivative vs. Warrant — What's the Difference?

In mathematics, the derivative of a function of a real variable measures the sensitivity to change of the function value (output value) with respect to a change in its argument (input value). Derivatives are a fundamental tool of calculus.

A document issued by a legal or government official authorizing the police or another body to make an arrest, search premises, or carry out some other action relating to the administration of justice

Resulting from or employing derivation

Justification or authority for an action, belief, or feeling

Copied or adapted from others

An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer.

Something derived.

Justify or necessitate (a course of action)

(Linguistics) A word formed from another by derivation, such as electricity from electric.

Officially affirm or guarantee

The limiting value of the ratio of the change in a function to the corresponding change in its independent variable.

(Law) A judicial writ authorizing the search or seizure of property, arrest of a person, or the execution of a legal judgment.

The instantaneous rate of change of a function with respect to its variable.

A voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.

The slope of the tangent line to the graph of a function at a given point. Also called differential coefficient, fluxion.

An option to buy stock at a specified price from an issuing company.

(Chemistry) A compound derived or obtained from another and containing essential elements of the parent substance.

Justification for an action or a belief; grounds

A financial instrument that derives its value from another more fundamental asset, as a commitment to buy a bond for a certain sum on a certain date.

Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof

Obtained by derivation; not radical, original, or fundamental.

Authorization or certification; sanction, as given by a superior.

Imitative of the work of someone else.

A warrant officer.

Referring to a work, such as a translation or adaptation, based on another work that may be subject to copyright restrictions.

A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.

(finance) Having a value that depends on an underlying asset of variable value.

To provide adequate grounds for; justify or require

Lacking originality.

To guarantee (a product).

Something derived.

To guarantee (a purchaser) indemnification against damage or loss.

(linguistics) A word that derives from another one.

(Law) To guarantee clear title to (real property).

(finance) A financial instrument whose value depends on the valuation of an underlying asset; such as a warrant, an option etc.

Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.

(chemistry) A chemical derived from another.

(countable) Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof.

(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.

(countable) An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.

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 $f\text{'}(x)$ or $\backslash frac\{df\}\{dx\}$ in Leibniz's notation, $\backslash dot\{f\}(x)$ in Newton's notation (the latter used particularly when the independent variable is time). Category:en:Functions

An option, usually issued together with another security and with a term at issue greater than a year, to buy other securities of the issuer.

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.

A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest, or to execute a judgment.

(Of more general classes of functions) Any of several related generalizations of the derivative: the directional derivative, partial derivative, Fréchet derivative, functional derivative, etc.

(countable) A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.

(generally) The linear operator that maps functions to their derived functions, usually written $D$; the simplest differential operator.

A document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of mechanical soundness and safety; a warrant of fitness.

Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word.

A defender, a protector.

Hence, unoriginal (said of art or other intellectual products.

Underclay in a coal mine.

That which is derived; anything obtained or deduced from another.

To protect, keep safe (from danger).

A word formed from another word, by a prefix or suffix, an internal modification, or some other change; a word which takes its origin from a root.

To give (someone) an assurance or guarantee (of something); also, with a double object: to guarantee (someone something).

A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord.

(transitive) To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value, etc.).

An agent which is adapted to produce a derivation (in the medical sense).

(transitive) To guarantee as being true; (colloquially) to believe strongly.

A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process.

(transitive) To authorize; to give (someone) sanction or warrant (to do something).

A substance so related to another substance by modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc.

(transitive) To justify; to give grounds for.

The result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx

That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority.

A financial instrument whose value is based on another security

A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing.

(linguistics) a word that is derived from another word;

That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security.

Resulting from or employing derivation;

A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice.

That which attests or proves; a voucher.

An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below.

Right; legality; allowance.

To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved harmless, from any loss or damage by his action.

To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it.

To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to.

To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure.

A writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts

A type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price;

Formal and explicit approval;

A written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications

Show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for;

Stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of;