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- noun Plural form of
correspondence .
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Examples
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Company email is for the birds, although It’s a necessary evil; certain correspondences with coworkers and affiliates can’t and shouldn’t be done over IM and web based applications like this …. other times, it absolutely can and is a faster and more efficient method of communicating.
Will Microblogging at Work Make You More Productive? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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I am bad with lj name-real name correspondences, and hope I haven't missed anyone else I know or fangirl at...
Goblin Fruit's winter 2010 issue is up! shweta_narayan 2010
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And the real reason why some of the Dravidian etyma are reconstructed there with voiced consonants is exactly the one whose lack you are deploring: rigorous methodology, namely, the small issue of regular phonetic correspondences, which is the true "focus of the science of comparative linguistics".
The Tower of Babel 2007
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But that is only at first glance, and your correspondences are a good deal less direct than mine.
Ingeld's Daughter Carla 2006
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George remembered a trip he and Anne had made to one of the show caverns near Castleton, but he couldn't recall the correspondences between the strange markings and their sources.
A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999
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The organism then with the most perfect set of correspondences, that is, the highest and most complex organism, has an obvious advantage over less complex forms.
Natural Law in the Spiritual World Henry Drummond 1874
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Moreover, the ancients had a knowledge of correspondences, which is the knowledge of representations -- it was the chief knowledge of their wise men.
Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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The ancients likewise had the science of correspondences, which is also the science of representations, the very essential science of the wise, which was principally cultivated by the Egyptians, whence their hieroglyphics were derived.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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It must be distinctly understood that the arteries and veins in the lungs are not affections, and that respirations are not perceptions and thoughts, but that they are correspondences, that is, they act correspondently or synchronously; likewise that the heart and the lungs are not the love and understanding, but correspondences: and inasmuch as they are correspondences the one can be seen in the other.
Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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Many online translators rely on the analysis of parallel texts to determine word correspondences: They might, for instance, go through the collected works of Voltaire, Balzac, Proust and a host of other writers, in both English and French, looking for consistent mappings between words.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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