Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To establish or demonstrate as having a correlation.
- intransitive verb To be related by a correlation.
- adjective Related by a correlation, especially having corresponding characteristics.
- noun Either of two correlate entities; a correlative.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Reciprocally related in any way; having interdependence, interconnection, or parallelism in use, form, etc.; correlated: as, the correlate motions of two bodies.
- noun The second term of a relation; that to which something, termed the relate, is related in any given way. Thus, child is the correlate, in the relation at paternity, to father as relate.
- To place in reciprocal relation; establish a relation of interdependence or interconnection between, as between the parts of a mechanism; bring into intimate or orderly connection.
- To be reciprocally related; have a reciprocal relation with regard to structure or use, as the parts of a body.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related.
- transitive verb To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation.
- noun One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
compare things and bring them into arelation having correspondingcharacteristics - verb intransitive To be
related by acorrelation - noun Either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a
correlative
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation
- noun either of two or more related or complementary variables
- adjective mutually related
- verb bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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That the graphs roughly correlate is indicative of not much of anything.
Matthew Yglesias » Income Inequality and Low Savings Rate 2010
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Dr. Stephen R. Marquardt, attempted to quantify beauty scientifically by developing the Golden Decagon Mask based on the ratio 1: 1.618 - The closervarious facialfeatures such as length of nose, position of eyes and length of chin correlate tokey points on the template, the more aesthetically pleasing the face is.
The Perfect Face 2008
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The team could see from the data which parts of the brain correlate to these movements.
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What this fails to correlate is that at $446.81 dollars spent fighting it every second and at 1 arrest every 38 seconds, that’s $16,978.78 for every arrest, most of which are for simple possession.
Potential Tax Revenue from Marijuana Production | My[confined]Space 2009
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The stock price drop can't be blamed solely on recent market trends or the purchase of the surety bonds division; the Q2 reports and the August 1 investor call correlate directly with the downward trend.
unknown title 2011
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Wattage labels correlate to the amount of electricity consumed, not sucking power.
Wired Top Stories Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan 2011
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Wattage labels correlate to the amount of electricity consumed, not sucking power.
Wired Top Stories Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan 2011
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“There are, customarily, three different ways to rank search results,†Najork says. “One way is to see how well the query terms correlate with what’s on a Web page.
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A "correlate" of a thing -- any thing -- simply implies the reciprocal relation it bears to some other thing.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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Furthermore, the cited article repeatedly uses the term "correlate" itself, and thus the headline should reflect the point made in the article.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Jpatt 2010
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