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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.

ChatGPT

  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. Marc Breton:

    Commercial devices derived from this work could potentially affect 30 to 50 percent of the type 1 diabetes population in wealthy countries such as Western Europe, the U.S. and Japan.

  2. Paul Wiener:

    But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

  3. Saint Basil:

    Do not measure your loss by itself if you do, it will seem intolerable but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

  4. Chairman Fujio Mitarai:

    Starting next year, with our 2016-2020 plan, our goal is to reach 5 trillion yen by 2020, what constitutes this 5 trillion will be quite different: Maybe 30 to 40 percent will be derived from the new businesses.

  5. Horace:

    Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

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