An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DERIVATIVES
Noun
derivatives
plural of derivative
Anagrams
• diversative
Source: Wiktionary
DERIVATIVE
De*riv"a*tive, a. Etym: [L. derivativus: cf. F. dérivatif.]
Definition: Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found in some parts of the body, in which the arteries empty directly into the veins without the interposition of capillaries. Flint.
– De*riv"a*tive*ly, adv.
– De*riv"a*tive*ness, n.
De*riv"a*tive, n.
1. That which is derived; anything obtained or deduced from another.
2. (Gram.)
Definition: A word formed from another word, by a prefix or suffix, an internal modification, or some other change; a word which takes its origin from a root.
3. (Mus.)
Definition: A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord.
4. (Med.)
Definition: An agent which is adapted to produce a derivation (in the medical sense).
5. (Math.)
Definition: A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process.
Note: Except in the mode of derivation the derivative is the same as the differential coefficient. See Differential coefficient, under Differential.
6. (Chem.)
Definition: A substance so related to another substance by modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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