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derivative

Noun B1 – Intermediate

Something developed or obtained from another source, or, in mathematics, a measure of how a function changes.

"In calculus class, they spent a week learning to calculate the derivative of a curve at any point."

As an adjective, "derivative" can also mean unoriginal, as in "a derivative pop song", a more critical sense of the same root idea.

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