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noun

deriving

the act of obtaining something from a source or working it out from something else

In a sentence

Six example sentences with deriving, each labelled with its topic.

  • Deriving an entire novel from one newspaper clipping took her three years, and the cutting stayed pinned above her desk throughout.

    Literature

  • The stock's depth comes from deriving every drop of flavor from bones roasted twice before they ever touch the water.

    Cooking

  • Deriving a complete ethics from reason alone was the ambition of the treatise, and critics have argued ever since about whether it succeeded.

    Philosophy

  • Deriving the orbit from three nights of observations took the astronomer a week of arithmetic with logarithm tables.

    Science

  • Deriving a fair price for the bond from its coupons and the current rates is a calculation every trainee learns first.

    Finance

  • Deriving an encryption key from a password is deliberately slow, so that guessing millions of passwords becomes impractical.

    Technology

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