noun

• Something derived, especially a product obtained chemically from a raw material.

  ‘Another promising approach is the use of butyric acid derivates such as 4-phenylbutyrate.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘With a sufficient number of distinct line-cross derivates, increasingly complicated models of gene interaction can be tested.’
  • ‘This story caught the attention of several drug companies, who are testing pain-killers based on nicotine derivates.’
  • ‘An acute overdose of any of the opiates or their derivates can result in coma, pulmonary edema, and cessation of respiration.’
  • ‘Theoretical physicists say that the derivate, or the beta function, is positive.’