derivative
Definition 1
Financial markets: Contract to buy or sell an asset or exchange cash, based on a specified condition, event, occurrence, or another contract.
Definition 2
Mathematics: Measure of the rate of change of a dependent variable with respect to an independent (explanatory) variable.
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