noun
- a person or thing that derives something; one who obtains or draws something from a source
Usage: relatively uncommon; often used in technical or formal contexts
Examples
- The deriver of the formula credited the original mathematician in his paper.
- As a deriver of income from multiple sources, she had to file complex tax returns.
- The deriver of the new theory built upon decades of previous research.
- In linguistics, a deriver is one who traces words back to their etymological roots.