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Definition of Correlate

1. Adjective. Mutually related.

2. Verb. To bear a reciprocal or mutual relation. "Do these facts correlate?"

3. Noun. Either of two or more related or complementary variables.

4. Verb. Bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation. "I cannot correlate these two pieces of information"

Definition of Correlate

1. v. i. To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related.

2. v. t. To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomena.

3. n. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative.

Definition of Correlate

1. Verb. (transitive) To compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To be related by a correlation ¹

3. Noun. Either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Correlate

1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Correlate

correctnesses correctomundo corrector corrector magnet correctors correctory correctour correctress correctrix corrects

correfoc correfocs correi correi debendi correlatable correlate (current term) correlated correlatedly correlates correlating

correlatingly correlation correlation coefficient correlation coefficients correlation does not imply causation correlation energy correlation matrix correlation table correlational correlational analysis

Literary usage of Correlate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Structure & Growth of the Mind by Sir William Mitchell (1907)
"But it is a more fundamental question for us to ask about the correlate of the ... It may seem at first that we have its correlate in the extent of cortex ..."

2. The Adjustment of Observations by the Method of Least Squares: With by Thomas Wallace Wright, John Fillmore Hayford (1906)
"The correlate equations are shown below in the form indicated in equations (4) of Art. 110. correlate Equations. -c, + 1.9 c; = (1) + C, ..."

3. The Problem of a National Budget by William Franklin Willoughby (1918)
"Failure of Congress to correlate Its Committee System with the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government. The reason for the failure on the ..."

4. Correlations of Mental Abilities by Benjamin Roy Simpson (1912)
"Order in which abilities correlate with other abilities tested In order to determine which of the tests correlate most highly with other tests, ..."

5. The Classical Psychologists: Selections Illustrating Psychology from by Benjamin Rand (1912)
"VISUAL SENSATION AS PSYCHICAL correlate OF CHEMICAL PROCESSES IN THE VISUAL SUBSTANCE That light occasions chemical changes in the nervous apparatus of ..."

6. The Mathematical Theory of Probabilities and Its Application to Frequency by Arne Fisher (1922)
"correlate between Theory and Practice.—In the theoretical analysis just completed we treated the fundamental elementary functions in the theory of ..."

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