Correlate meaning

kôr'ə-lāt', kŏr'-
The definition of correlate refers to things that go together or relate to each other in some way.

An example of things that would correlate are poverty and homelessness.

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To establish or demonstrate as having a correlation.

Correlated drug abuse and crime.

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To be related by a correlation.
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Related by a correlation, especially having corresponding characteristics.
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Either of two correlate entities; a correlative.
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Either of two interrelated things, esp. if one implies the other.
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Closely and naturally related.
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To be mutually related (to or with)
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To bring (a thing) into mutual relation (with another thing); calculate or show the reciprocal relation between; specif., to bring (one of two related or interdependent quantities, sets of statistics, etc.) into contrast (with the other)
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To compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics.
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(intransitive) To be related by a correlation.
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Either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative.
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Origin of correlate

  • Back-formation from correlation
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Correlate Sentence Examples

  • More and more the science seeks to discover periodicities and to correlate these with others.

  • Many attempts have been made to correlate the results of the analyses of a soil with its known cropping power, but there is yet much to be learnt in regard to these matters.

  • It is tempting to try to correlate the members of this triad with the individual members of the older triad.

  • How the hostile kings of Israel and Syria came to fight a common enemy, and how to correlate the Assyrian and Biblical records, are questions which have perplexed all recent writers.

  • It is unfortunately still very difficult to correlate even approximately the strata on the two sides of the Atlantic, and there is great doubt as to what strata belong to each division of the Tertiary period even in different parts of North America.

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