derivative
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Such allusions leave “Backrooms” open to charges of being derivative; Mr. Parsons is of a generation that has a tendency to gobble up content and issue reworked versions of it.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
To better understand the unusual ruthenocene derivative, the team combined several analytical techniques, including NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
Traders in derivative markets put a 60% chance of a rate hike by December.
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
“And it turns out that sometimes we will sell a Bitcoin derivative because it’s in the best interest of the company, but it’s not necessary.”
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
These infinitesimals survived unchanged throughout Leibniz’s calculations; indeed the derivative of y with respect to x was not the infinitesimal-free ratio of fluxions y/x, but the ratio of infinitesimals dy/dx.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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