T-SQL - What is an inline-view?

Question

I recently answered this question how-to-call-user-defined-function-in-order-to-use-with-select-group-by-order-by

My answer was to use an inline view to perform the

Answer 1

I think another term (possibly a SQL Server term) is 'derived table'

For instance, this article:

http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1042

or

http://www.sqlteam.com/article/using-derived-tables-to-calculate-aggregate-values