Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A word following another in immediate grammatical derivation, or a word derived from a derivative and not directly from the root.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A word derived from a derivative, and not directly from the root
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- noun linguistics A word derived indirectly from a
derivative of another - noun mathematics The
slope of a line that either touches, or is below the line of aconvex function
Etymologies
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sub- + derivative
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