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derivative

/dih-riv-uh-tiv/US // dɪˈrɪv ə tɪv //UK // (dɪˈrɪvətɪv) //

衍生品,衍生产品,衍生物,衍生

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : derived.
    • : not original; secondary.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something that has been derived.
    • : Also called derived form .Grammar. a form that has undergone derivation from another, as atomic from atom.
    • : Chemistry. a substance or compound obtained from, or regarded as derived from, another substance or compound.
    • : Also called differential quotient; especially British, differential coefficient .Mathematics. the limit of the ratio of the increment of a function to the increment of a variable in it, as the latter tends to 0; the instantaneous change of one quantity with respect to another, as velocity, which is the instantaneous change of distance with respect to time.Compare first derivative, second derivative.
    • : a financial contract whose value derives from the value of underlying stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, etc.

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Examples

  • Roni Israelov, the President of investment firm Ndvr and the author of several academic papers on derivatives, says 2020 has brought a big uptick in options contracts for individual stocks.

  • Indeed, Randy Frederick, Charles Schwab’s vice president of trading and derivatives, argues the latest tech correction can largely be chalked up to, “without a doubt, the fact that things had gotten very, very expensive.”

  • The FT later reported that SoftBank is sitting on trading gains of about $4 billion from founder Masayoshi Son’s bets on equity derivatives, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter.

  • The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Zero Hedge reported that SoftBank was making massive bets on technology stocks using equity derivatives.

  • These are derivative contracts that an investor, usually an insurance company, can buy as a way of further hedging their risks from natural disasters.

  • These movies follow a number of those derivative action movie prescriptions.

  • According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the morphine derivative is the most addictive drug in its class.

  • Of course these are derivative, too, almost as though Serra were his own pupil, or a forger of his own pieces.

  • The new idea of making the said Dorito shell spicier and adding a splash of lime is derivative at best.

  • Some of those owners are outside your country, so you don't even get derivative benefits.

  • Those who hold that the species were the basis of the ancient Modes or harmoniai must regard the keys as derivative.

  • The derivative law in this case depends not solely on laws, but on a collocation; and collocations cannot be reduced to any law.

  • In the example in question, we know the causes on which the derivative uniformity depends.

  • Some are ultimate properties, others derivative; of some, no cause can be assigned, but others are manifestly dependent on causes.

  • It is a derivative word, from Algonkin, and gan the penultimate syllable of the Odjibwa term Sa-g--gan, a lake.