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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • 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 a convex function

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ derivative

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