correlate

[ verb, adjective kawr-uh-leyt, kor-; noun kawr-uh-lit, -leyt, kor- ]

/ verb, adjective ˈkɔr əˌleɪt, ˈkɒr-; noun ˈkɔr ə lɪt, -ˌleɪt, ˈkɒr- /

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verb (used with object), cor·re·lat·ed, cor·re·lat·ing.

to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.

verb (used without object), cor·re·lat·ed, cor·re·lat·ing.

to have a mutual or reciprocal relation; stand in correlation: The results of the two tests correlate to a high degree.

adjective

mutually or reciprocally related.

noun

either of two related things, especially when one implies the other.

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Origin of correlate

1635–45; probably back formation from correlation and correlative

OTHER WORDS FROM correlate

cor·re·lat·a·ble, adjectivein·ter·cor·re·late, verb (used with object), in·ter·cor·re·lat·ed, in·ter·cor·re·lat·ing.non·cor·re·lat·ing, adjectiveun·cor·re·lat·ed, adjective

un·cor·re·lat·ed·ly, adverb

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How to use correlate in a sentence

This made it possible to examine brain waves that correlate with attention at the moment just before they successfully retrieved—or forgot—the memory.
Media Multitasking Is Ruining Our Memory. Can We Fix It?|Shelly Fan|November 3, 2020|Singularity Hub
Our presidents have ranged widely in age, and age hasn’t always correlated with mental and physical fitness.
How old should a president be?|Daniel J. Levitin|October 22, 2020|Vox
This trains the algorithm to correlate variables like an area’s species richness and species composition with specific patterns in satellite images.
How to count insects from space|Katie McLean|October 21, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Color perception is based on the visible spectrum of electromagnetic waves of light and auditory perception is based on the frequency of pressure waves of air, which can be mapped linearly to neural correlates.
Our Mind-Boggling Sense of Smell - Issue 91: The Amazing Brain|Ann-Sophie Barwich|October 14, 2020|Nautilus

Given that population density is strongly correlated to how Democratic or Republican an area is — the more people live in a place, the more Democratic it tends to be — this is an important consideration for pollsters as well.
What Pollsters Have Changed Since 2016 — And What Still Worries Them About 2020|Geoffrey Skelley (geoffrey.skelley@abc.com)|October 13, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
At some length, she explained the nature and purpose of the tests, and her method of scoring and correlating them.
Day of the Moron|Henry Beam Piper
Plate 40 indicates the necessary design steps for a panel surface enrichment correlating with still life drawing.
Industrial Arts Design|William H. Varnum
Our criticism amounts only to this, that in correlating the new system with the old he went upon a wrong track.
Logic, Inductive and Deductive|William Minto
An understanding of the latter set of data was facilitated by correlating it with the growth records of marked individuals.
Life History and Ecology of the Five-lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatus|Henry S. Fitch
A mass of data is already at hand, and in process of sorting and correlating.
A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5)|Henry Smith Williams

British Dictionary definitions for correlate

correlate

/ (ˈkɒrɪˌleɪt) /

verb

to place or be placed in a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relationship

(tr) to establish or show a correlation

adjective

having a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relationship

noun

either of two things mutually or reciprocally related

Derived forms of correlate

correlatable, adjective

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