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English

Pronunciation

• (verb)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?k???le?t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?k???le?t/, /?k???le?t/
• (noun)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?k???l?t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?k???l?t/, /?k???l?t/

Verb

correlate (third-person singular simple present correlates, present participle correlating, simple past and past participle correlated)

1. (transitive) To compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics
2. (intransitive) To be related by a correlation
   • 1871, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture

     Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice.

Translations

Noun

correlate (plural correlates)

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

Anagrams

• coral tree

Italian

Verb

correlate

1. second-person plural present indicative of correlare
2. second-person plural imperative of correlare
3. feminine plural of correlato

English

Etymology

From Middle French corrélationMorphologically correlate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k????le???n/, /k????le???n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k????le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: cor?re?la?tion

Noun

correlation (countable and uncountable, plural correlations)

1. A reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects.
2. (statistics) One of the several measures of the linear statistical relationship between two random variables, indicating both the strength and direction of the relationship.
3. (algebra) An isomorphism from a projective space to the dual of a projective space, often to the dual of itself.

Derived terms

• autocorrelation
• correlation coefficient
• discorrelation
• Pearson correlation

Related terms

• correlate

Translations

Further reading

• correlation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia