derivative definition

derivative

Financial markets: Contract to buy or sell an asset or exchange cash, based on a specified condition, event, occurrence, or another contract.

Mathematics: Measure of the rate of change of a dependent variable with respect to an independent (explanatory) variable.

derivative is in the Securities & Futures Trading and Statistics, Mathematics, & Analysis subjects.

derivative appears in the definitions of the following terms: petrochemical, rainbow option, drug, settlement price, derivative security, derivative contract, hydrocarbon solvent, derivative products company (DPC), correlation risk, polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) and

derivative appears in the other terms: derivative suit, credit derivative (CD), weather derivative, derivative work, derivative trust, derivative possession, derivative product, mortgage derivative, derivative action

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