- A concise representation of name you made from first letters - A crony may be too much for a word from the capitals of others - A word like radar or laser is an old friend, Monsieur - PIN or ATAR - Word formed from initial letters - Word formed from initials
- Influential, determinative - Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic;
as, the formative arts. - Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a
termination merely formative. - Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living
or formative matter. - That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of
the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word. - A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as
from a root.
- Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original,
or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else;
secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. - That which is derived; anything obtained or deduced
from another. - A word formed from another word, by a prefix or suffix,
an internal modification, or some other change; a word which takes its
origin from a root. - A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by
inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its
harmonics in an actual chord. - An agent which is adapted to produce a derivation (in
the medical sense). - A derived function; a function obtained from a given
function by a certain algebraic process. - A substance so related to another substance by
modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from
it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the
hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc.