Question

what is the difference between differentiate and derivate?

Answer 1

Differentiation is a process.
Derivative is the result obtained from differentiation.

\[y = 2x ^{3}\]
\[\frac{dy}{dx} = 6x ^{2}\] is the derivative obtained by differentiation.

Answer 2

thank you .sam

Answer 3

He asked what the difference was between the words "differentiate" and "derivate". Those two words are simply synonyms for the command "Take the derivative of a given function".

Answer 4

@SOMU.kvp

Answer 5

I do not think there is a word called derivate

Answer 6

In calculus, we do use the word derivative. I believe the asker had a typo

Answer 7

@rivermaker

http://www.onelook.com/?w=derivate&ls=a