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something that naturally develops or is developed from something else
the whole field of industrial robots is a derivative of technology developed for the space program
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Tretinoin, also known as all-trans retinoic acid, is a type of retinoid, a group of vitamin A derivatives that includes retinol.
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Emily Orofino, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2025
Eventually, a robust market could form around them, complete with derivatives that strip out the bitcoin component or add leverage on top of it.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
What To Know According to the comptroller, securities employment—relating to the buying and selling of financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and derivatives—hit its highest annual level in at least three decades in 2024, reaching 201,500 workers.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
Because the substances are synthetic derivatives of a hemp product and not marijuana, state law does not cover its prohibition to anyone.
—Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
Their algorithm works for any number of variables and arbitrarily many derivatives.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
These derivatives can be used to construct a special quadratic equation — a parabola if your function lives in a 2D plane, and a cuplike shape called a paraboloid if your function is higher dimensional.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
Compute the function’s first and second derivatives at that point.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
Individual investors have been net buyers of Tesla shares for 13 straight sessions through Thursday, pumping $8 billion into the stock, retail trading data from JPMorgan Chase’s global equity derivatives strategist Emma Wu shows.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025
Emily Orofino, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2025
Eventually, a robust market could form around them, complete with derivatives that strip out the bitcoin component or add leverage on top of it.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
What To Know According to the comptroller, securities employment—relating to the buying and selling of financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and derivatives—hit its highest annual level in at least three decades in 2024, reaching 201,500 workers.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
Because the substances are synthetic derivatives of a hemp product and not marijuana, state law does not cover its prohibition to anyone.
—Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
Their algorithm works for any number of variables and arbitrarily many derivatives.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
These derivatives can be used to construct a special quadratic equation — a parabola if your function lives in a 2D plane, and a cuplike shape called a paraboloid if your function is higher dimensional.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
Compute the function’s first and second derivatives at that point.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
Individual investors have been net buyers of Tesla shares for 13 straight sessions through Thursday, pumping $8 billion into the stock, retail trading data from JPMorgan Chase’s global equity derivatives strategist Emma Wu shows.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Derivatives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/derivatives. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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