derivative

Adjective

• resulting from or employing derivation
  • a derivative process
    
  • a highly derivative prose style
    

Noun

• (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word
  • `electricity' is a derivative of `electric'
    

• a financial instrument whose value is based on another security

• a compound obtained from, or regarded as derived from, another compound

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  derivative instrument , derived function , differential coefficient , differential , first derivative