correlate

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English

Etymology

From cor- +‎ relate.

Pronunciation

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; to be correlated.
    • 1871, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture:
      Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice.
    • 1992, Rudolf M Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 3-4:
      As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.

Translations

Noun

correlate (plural correlates)

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

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Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

correlate

  1. inflection of correlare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

correlate f pl

  1. feminine plural of correlato

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Portuguese

Verb

correlate

  1. inflection of correlatar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative