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Another word for correlative

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Noun

  1. Something closely resembling or analogous to something else

      1. The condition of being parallel; near similarity or exact agreement in particulars; parallelism.
      2. The condition of being parallel; conformity in essential points
      3. Any of the imaginary lines representing degrees of latitude that encircle the earth parallel to the plane of the equator.
      1. Two or more persons or things that go together in appearance, size, or other quality
      2. A slender piece of wood, cardboard, waxed cord, etc. tipped with a composition that catches fire by friction; esp., a safety match
      3. A pair, each one of which resembles or harmonizes with the other:
      1. A copy or duplicate, as of a lease
      2. A person or thing that corresponds to or closely resembles another, as in form or function
      3. One of two parts that fit and complete each other.
      1. A person or firm acting for, or having regular business relations with, another at a distance
      2. A person hired by a newspaper, radio or television network, etc. to furnish news, articles, newscast segments, etc. of a certain type or from a distant place
      3. One who communicates by means of letters, e-mails, or other forms of written messages.
      1. Either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative
      2. Either of two interrelated things, esp. if one implies the other
      1. A person or thing of the same kind, class, race, or genus
      2. (Chemistry) A compound produced in the same process that produces another, often structurally similar compound.
      3. A substance, formed in an alcoholic beverage during fermentation or distillation, that gives the beverage its characteristic flavor, color, etc.
      1. A thing or part that is analogous
    See also:

    same

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Sentence Examples

  • But if these three correlative facts are immediately given, it seems to be thought possible by Cousin to vindicate them in reflective consciousness.

  • (d) The correlative process of Combination is less elaborately sketched, but in a luminous passage in the Politicus (§ 278), in explaining by means of an example the nature and of examples, Plato represents it as the bringing use P ?

  • The rules of kinship largely determined status with its correlative rights and obligations, supplied the place of contract and of laws affecting the ownership, disposition and devolution of property, constituting the clan an organic, selfcontained entity, a political, social and mutual insurance copartnership. The solidarity of the clan was its most important and all-pervading characteristic. The entire territory occupied by a clan was the common and absolute property of that clan.

  • 5 The Organum and the History are thus correlative, and form the two equally necessary sides of a true philosophy; by their union the new philosophy is produced.

  • by the method of reciprocal polars) deduce from it the other, but we do at one and the same time demonstrate the two theorems; our (x, y, z.) instead of meaning point-co-ordinates pay, mean line-co-ordinates, and the demonstration is then in every step of it a demonstration of the correlative theorem.

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