derived
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
derive /dɪˈrʌɪv/
▶verb
- 1 (derive something from) obtain something from (a specified source).
■ base something on a modification of: Marx derived his philosophy of history from Hegel.
■ Mathematics obtain a function or equation from another, especially by differentiation.
- 2 (derive from) have as a root or origin; originate from.
– derivatives
derivable adjective.
derivable adjective.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘draw a fluid through or into a channel’): from OFr. deriver or L. derivare, from de- ‘down, away’ + rivus ‘brook, stream’.
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abiotic
- acetyl
- ache
- acriflavine
- acyl
- -ae
- Afrikaans
- aggregate fruit
- aleph
- alkali
- alkyl
- amine
- amma
- ammonium
- apomorphine
- aryl
- aspartame
- asphalt
- atrazine
- augmentative
- Augustinian
- barbiturate
- barbituric acid
- benzoyl
- benzyl
- biofuel
- Bode's law
- boric acid
- Breton
- butyl
- candid
- cellulose
- cetane
- chemosynthesis
- China rose
- citric
- cocaine
- codeine
- collective unconscious
- common law
- communism
- copyleft
- Corallian
- coralline
- cresyl
- cyanocobalamin
- cyclohexyl
- damson
- denominal
- deoxyribose
