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de·riv·a·tive

(dĕ-riv'ă-tiv),

1. Relating to or producing derivation.

2. Something produced by modification of something preexisting.

3. Specifically, a chemical compound that may be produced from another compound of similar structure in one or more steps, as in replacement of H by an alkyl, acyl, or amino group.

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de·riv·a·tive

(dĕ-riv'ă-tiv)

1. Relating to or producing derivation.

2. Something produced by modification of something preexisting.

3. Specifically, a chemical compound produced from another compound in one or more steps, as in replacement of H by an alkyl, acyl, or amino group.

Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

de·riv·a·tive

(dĕ-riv'ă-tiv)

Chemical compound that may be produced from another compound of similar structure in one or more steps.

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Fractional derivatives have been used in the literature to observe the effect of memory on a system dynamics by replacing the ordinary derivative order with the fractional derivative order [12-15].

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The Caputo fractional derivative is given by the convolution of a power law kernel and the ordinary derivative of the function.