derivative betydelse and definition

Betydelse av derivative på svenska

• 0 If something is derivative, it is not the result of new ideas, but has been developed from or copies something else:

  • His painting/style is very derivative.

• 1 a form of something made or developed from another form:

  • This is a derivative of seaweed that is currently used as a food additive.

  • "Detestable" is a derivative of "detest".

• 2 a financial product such as an option (= the right to buy or sell something in the future) that has a value based on the value of another product, such as shares or bonds:

  • The company became the leading marketplace for foreign exchange derivatives.

  • Brokers predict the derivatives market will continue expanding at a fast pace.

• 3 in calculus (= an area of advanced mathematics in which continuously changing values are studied), a measure of the rate at which a function is changing:

  • The derivative of the position of a moving object with respect to time is the object's velocity.

  • Find the derivative of the function f(x) = (x2 - 5) (x3 - 2x + 3).

• 4 having qualities taken from something else:

  • Too much of the music feels derivative.

• 5 something made from something else:

  • Retinol is a derivative of vitamin A.

• 6 a financial product such as an option (= the right to buy or sell something in the future) that has a value based on the value of another asset, such as shares, or bonds:

  • GS Financial Products buys and sells derivatives such as swaps and options linked to interest rates, currencies, commodities and indexes.

  • derivatives trading

  • In the past 20 years there has been a huge growth in the derivatives markets.