antiderivative
noun
antiderivative is a noun meaning “A function whose derivative is a given function; an indefinite integral” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-D-E-R-I-V-A-T-I-V-E, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of antiderivative is antiderivatives.
What does antiderivative mean?
noun
- 1
A function whose derivative is a given function; an indefinite integral
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce antiderivative?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-antiderivative.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of antiderivative
- antiderivatives plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antiderivative?
Antiderivative appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Antiderivative in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense function whose derivative is a given function:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | primitive |
| German | Stammfunktion, Aufleitung |
| Portuguese | integral, primitiva |
| Spanish | antiderivada, primitiva |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does antiderivative come from?
From anti- + derivative.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).