Definition:Piecewise Continuously Differentiable Function/Definition 2

Definition
Let $f$ be a real function defined on a closed interval $\left[{a \,.\,.\, b}\right]$.

Then $f$ is piecewise continuously differentiable iff:

there exists a finite subdivision $\left\{{x_0, \ldots, x_n}\right\}$ of $\left[{a \,.\,.\, b}\right]$, $x_0 = a$ and $x_n = b$, such that $f$ is continuously differentiable on $\left[{x_{i−1} \,.\,.\, x_i}\right]$, the derivatives at $x_{i−1}$ and $x_i$ understood as one-sided derivatives, for every $i \in \left\{{1, \ldots, n}\right\}$.

Also see

 * Piecewise Continuously Differentiable Function/Definition 2 is Continuous
 * Piecewise Continuously Differentiable Function/Definition 2 is Equivalent to Piecewise Continuously Differentiable Function