antiderivative
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of antiderivative
First recorded in 1940–45; anti- + derivative
Example Sentences
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It almost seems too simple that the area of an entire curved region can be calculated by just evaluating an antiderivative at the first and last endpoints of an interval.
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If we can find a function F derivative f , we call F an antiderivative of f .
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The antiderivative of a vector-valued function is found by finding the antiderivatives of the component functions, then putting them back together in a vector-valued function.
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The antiderivative of a vector-valued function appears in applications.
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The antiderivative of a function f is a function with a derivative f .
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