antiderivative
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of antiderivative
First recorded in 1940–45; anti- + derivative
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Or, if the function represents the acceleration of the object at a given time, then the antiderivative represents its velocity.
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The antiderivative of a vector-valued function appears in applications.
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Use substitution to find the antiderivative of ∫ z z2 − 5dz.
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Unfortunately, the antiderivative of the integrand e−x2 is not an elementary function.
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Also, just as we can calculate the derivative of a vector- valued function by differentiating the component functions separately, we can calculate the antiderivative in the same manner.
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