correlate
- adjective
- /ˈkɔːrəˌleɪt/
- The temperature and ice cream sales are closely correlated; when the weather is hot, more people buy ice cream.
Examples
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When they're perfectly correlated, once I know X, then I also know Theta and the two random variables are linearly related.
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So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to.
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Isolating a single moment of Saint John's story in the context of a private, devotional manuscript that did not contain a correlate text, in other words, must have been the product of a highly specific and personal request.
Academic text (2008) -
Researchers found that sleep quality and cognitive performance are strongly correlated, suggesting that better sleep leads to improved focus.
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In this study, a greater number of hours spent exercising was positively correlated with lower stress levels among participants.
Synonyms
Connected by topic or cause, like documents about the same event
Connected with or about something
Connected so that each part affects the others
Showing a matching, two-way relationship with something else
Relating to a connection between two things shown by data
A connection between two things where changes in one link to changes in the other
How Related
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Correlate used as an adjective comes from the same parts meaning 'together' (cor-) and the idea in relate, so it describes things that are connected and often change together.