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# Differentiation vs. Derivative

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Differentiationnoun

The act of differentiating.

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

‘a derivative conveyance; a derivative word’;

Differentiationnoun

The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.

Imitative of the work of someone else.

Differentiationnoun

The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specific purposes.

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

Differentiationnoun

(geology) The process of separation of cooling magma into various rock types.

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

Differentiationnoun

(calculus) The process of determining the derived function of a function.

Lacking originality.

Differentiationnoun

The act of differentiating.

‘Further investigation of the Sanskrit may lead to differentiation of the meaning of such of these roots as are real roots.’;

Derivativenoun

Something derived.

Differentiationnoun

The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.

Derivativenoun

(linguistics) A word that derives from another one.

Differentiationnoun

The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specific purposes.

Derivativenoun

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

Differentiationnoun

The supposed act or tendency in being of every kind, whether organic or inorganic, to assume or produce a more complex structure or functions.

Derivativenoun

(chemistry) A chemical derived from another.

Differentiationnoun

a discrimination between things as different and distinct;

‘it is necessary to make a distinction between love and infatuation’;

Derivativenoun

(calculus) The derived function of a function (the slope at a certain point on some curve $f\left(x\right)$)

‘The derivative of $f:f\left(x\right) = x^2$ is $f\text{'}:f\text{'}\left(x\right) = 2x$’;

Differentiationnoun

the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function

Derivativenoun

(calculus) The value of this function for a given value of its independent variable.

‘The derivative of $f\left(x\right) = x^2$ at x = 3 is $f\text{'}\left(3\right) = 2 * 3 = 6$.’;

Differentiationnoun

(biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function;

‘cell differentiation in the developing embryo’;

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

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

Derivativenoun

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

Derivativenoun

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.

Derivativenoun

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.

Derivativenoun

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

Derivativenoun

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

Derivativenoun

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.

Derivativenoun

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

Derivativenoun

a financial instrument whose value is based on another security

Derivativenoun

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

‘`electricity' is a derivative of `electric'’;