corresponding

[kawr-uh-spon-ding, kor-]

adjective

1. identical in all essentials or respects.

   corresponding fingerprints.

2. similar in position, purpose, form, etc..

   corresponding officials in two states.

3. associated in a working or other relationship.

   a bolt and its corresponding nut.

4. dealing with correspondence.

   a corresponding secretary.

5. employing the mails as a means of association.

   a corresponding member of a club.

Other Word Forms

• correspondingly adverb
• noncorresponding adjective
• noncorrespondingly adverb
• uncorresponding adjective
• uncorrespondingly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of corresponding¹

First recorded in 1570–80; correspond + -ing ²

Example Sentences

"This basic shape is, by itself, bistable," says Jie Yin, corresponding author of a paper on the work and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University.

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McAllister and his team handed out ice cream and demonstrated a gadget called Poetry Camera, which uses Claude to analyze photos and print a corresponding poem.

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The automaker was working through a plan to reduce bloated inventories in the U.S. in the corresponding quarter last year, which dragged on production the number of cars shipped to dealers.

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These contracts and their corresponding markets are regulated on the federal level by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

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In other words, let the objects that exist out there in the world be described by a finite number of features corresponding to the dimensions of some conceptual space.

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Related Words

• analogous 
• comparable 
• reciprocal