Derived meaning

Simple past tense and past participle of derive.
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Derived is defined as came from or obtained from a specific source.

When your decor style comes from a picture you see online, this is an example of a time when your decor is derived from your inspiration picture.

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(systematics) Of, or pertaining to, conditions unique to the descendant species of a clade, and not found in earlier ancestral species.
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(systematics, comparable, archaic) Possessing features believed to be more advanced or improved than those other organisms.
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Product of derivation.

The French language is derived from Latin.

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Derived Sentence Examples

  • The following is the general idea derived from these researches.

  • In other respects his book is derived almost entirely from Christie.

  • The hourly values are derived from smoothed curves, the object being to get the mean ordinate for a 60-minute period.

  • A considerable part of the alimentary canal is said to be derived from the ectoderm in the buds of both Cephalodiscus and Rhabdopleura.

  • Salama, from which the word is derived appears in salaam, " peace be with you," the greeting of the East, and in Moslem, and means to be "free" - or "secure."

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