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Princeton's WordNet

  1. derivedadjective

    formed or developed from something else; not original

    "the belief that classes and organizations are secondary and derived"- John Dewey

Wiktionary

  1. derivedadjective

    Of, or pertaining to, conditions unique to the descendant species of a clade, and not found in earlier ancestral species.

  2. derivedadjective

    Possessing features believed to be more advanced or improved than those other organisms.

  3. derivedadjective

    product of derivation

    The French language is derived from Latin.

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  1. derived

    Derived refers to something that is obtained, copied, developed, or originated from a particular source or origin. It is an adjective and it usually implies that something has been extracted, produced, or evolved from another entity or aspect. For instance, in science, a 'derived unit' would refer to a measurement unit obtained from basic units. In grammar, a 'derived word' would mean a word that has been formed from another word or root.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Derived

    of Derive

Editors Contribution

  1. derived

    Created or formed.

    They derived the agreement from the passion, choice and agreement of the people.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 15, 2020  


  2. DERIVED

    Inferred from, learnt from E.g. derived from the recipe book (the recipe being spoken about has been taken from the recipe book)


    Submitted by rinat on July 19, 2021  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'derived' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2951

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of derived in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of derived in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of derived in a Sentence

  1. Joseph Addison:

    From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

  2. Chairman Fujio Mitarai:

    What constitutes this 5 trillion will be quite different: Maybe 30 to 40 percent will be derived from the new businesses.

  3. Henry Bessemer:

    I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

  4. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

  5. Jonathan Reiner:

    We know that dexamethasone does reduce the risk of mortality. That comes from data from a trial called the Recovery trial, but to show you what the stakes are, the patients in that trial who received dexamethasone and derived a benefit still had a 23 % 28-day mortality rate. So almost a quarter of the patients treated with dexamethasone were dead by a month out.

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