Correlate
noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative.
"Several studies have demonstrated that neutralizing antibodies are a strong correlate for protection against symptomatic infection with Covid-19 and its variants, with boosters enhancing neutralization. Peter Gilbert, professor of vaccine and infectious diseases at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and lead author of the Moderna study, says these correlates are useful to apply to large groups."
- 2 either of two or more related or complementary variables wordnet
- 1 To compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics. transitive
- 2 bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation wordnet
- 3 To be related by a correlation; to be correlated. intransitive
"Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice."
- 4 to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation wordnet
- 1 mutually related wordnet
Example
More examples"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
Etymology
From cor- + relate.
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