(finance) A security whose value is derived from one or more other, more fundamental, assets.

plural of derivative work

(law) In copyright law, a work that is a variation of an original work sufficiently similar to contain protected elements of the original work, but sufficiently different to qualify for copyright protection independent of the original work.

plural of Schwarzian derivative

(singular only) A particular operator that, when applied to a function f yields a function x↦(f(x))/(f'(x))-3/2((f(x))/(f'(x)))² / (countable) Any image of that operator.

Not derivable; uncapable of being derived.

prediction market

(mathematics) A particular generalization of the derivative of a function between two Banach spaces.

plural of quasi-derivative

(linguistics) The derivation of a word from another word (of a differing part of speech) without modification; anthimeria.