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subderivatives

subderivatives is the plural of subderivative.

Meaning of subderivative

Noun

subderivative (plural subderivatives)

  1. A word derived indirectly, from a derivative of another.
    • "Friendliness" is a subderivative: it is derived from "friendly", which comes from "friend".
  2. A generalization of the notion of a derivative, defined as the slope of a line that either touches, or is everywhere below the line of a convex function.

Questions about subderivatives

What is subderivatives the plural of?
Subderivatives is the plural of subderivative.

Words near subderivatives in the dictionary

  1. subdepressed
  2. subdepressive
  3. subderivation
  4. subderivations
  5. subderivative
  6. subderivatives
  7. subdermal
  8. subdermally
  9. subdermic
  10. subdermically
  11. subdermis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subderivatives (page history and authors); subderivative (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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