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correspondence definition

cor·re·spond·ence (-spändəns)

noun

  1. agreement with something else or with one another; conformity
  2. similarity; analogy
    1. communication by exchange of letters
    2. the letters received or written
  3. Math. a clearly defined relationship between two members of a set, or different sets, as one-to-one correspondence

Etymology: ME < ML correspondentia < prp. of correspondere: see correspond

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