Definitions for derived
de·rived

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. derived(adj)

   formed or developed from something else; not original

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

Wiktionary(4.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. derived(Adjective)

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

2. derived(Adjective)

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

3. derived(Adjective)

   product of derivation

   The French language is derived from Latin.

Webster Dictionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Derived

   of Derive

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

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

How to pronounce derived?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say derived in sign language?

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. Horace:

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

2. Henry Fielding:

   It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

3. James Yeh:

   After you leave, sometimes that kind of knowledge is derived from pharmaceutical salespeople.

4. Vince Lombardi:

   Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

5. 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.

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