Correlative

Word CORRELATIVE
Character 11
Hyphenation cor rel a tive
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Correlative"

What do we mean by correlative?

Related; corresponding. adjective

Indicating a reciprocal or complementary relationship. adjective

Either of two correlative entities; a correlate. noun

A correlative word or expression. noun

Being in correlation; reciprocally related or connected; interdependent; mutually implied.

In grammar, having a mutual relation; answering to or complementing one another.

Either of two terms or things which are reciprocally related; a correlate. Careful writers distinguish the terms as correlatives, the things as correlates. In the medieval Latin, which has greatly influenced English terminology, this distinction is constantly maintained. noun

One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing. noun

The antecedent of a pronoun. noun

Having or indicating a reciprocal relation. adjective

Mutually related; corresponding adjective

Either of two correlative things. noun

A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbal form, in Esperanto regularly formed, indicating 'which?', 'that', 'some', 'none', and 'every', as applied to people, things, type, place, manner, reason, time, or quantity, as: kiu ‘who’ (which person?), iu ‘someone’ (some person), tie ‘there’ (that place), ĉie ‘everywhere’ (all places), etc. noun

Mutually related adjective

Expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation adjective

Either of two or more related or complementary variables noun

Either of two correlative things.

(grammar) A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbial form

Synonyms and Antonyms for Correlative

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The word "correlative" in example sentences

Mystery signifies the hidden truth, veiled under this symbol, and now revealed; its correlative is revelation. ❋ Unknown (1871)

These so called correlative constitutional rights include the right to a maximally safeguarded electoral system that provides the greatest protection against even the opportunity for tampering and the right to know that one's vote was fairly counted as cast. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A head will be more accurately defined as the correlative of that which is ❋ Unknown (2002)

A head will be more accurately defined as the correlative of that which is 'headed', than as that of an animal, for the animal does not have a head qua animal, since many animals have no head. ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle (N/A)

Similarly, if the attribute 'winged' be withdrawn from 'the bird', 'the wing' will no longer be relative; for if the so-called correlative is not winged, it follows that 'the wing' has no correlative. ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle (N/A)

The mutually related peculiarities may be termed correlative, and we therefore speak, in such cases, of correlative variability. ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)

And to endeavour to conceive a reality which no one knows, is to assert a relative term without its correlative, which is absurd; it is to posit an ideal which is opposed to nothing actual. ❋ Henry Jones (1887)

: -- Assuredly I escape; for if truth and knowledge are terms correlative and interdependent, as I maintain they are, then wherever knowledge is conceivable truth is conceivable, wherever knowledge is possible truth is possible, wherever knowledge is actual truth is actual. ❋ William James (1876)

For the word 'slave' is what logicians call the correlative of this word ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

‘the bird’, ‘the wing’ will no longer be relative; for if the so-called correlative is not winged, it follows that ‘the wing’ has no correlative. ❋ Unknown (2002)

In your Roman Empire example, I would never -- could never -- require a student who argued for certain causes of the fall of Rome to show "unambiguous causal relationships" (because there are no such things in the field of history) or to produce the kind of correlative data you mention (because the data set is so poor). ❋ David Wharton (2007)

a relation, the other is called the correlative, e.g. 'subject' is the correlative of 'ruler,' and conversely 'ruler' of 'subject.' ❋ St. George William Joseph Stock (N/A)

But when we speak of "correlative" changes occurring suddenly in the different parts of the eye, we use the word in an entirely new sense: this time there is a whole set of changes not only simultaneous, not only bound together by community of origin, but so coördinated that the organ keeps on performing the same simple function, and even performs it better. ❋ Henri Bergson (1900)

Their ambition to escape finds a kind of correlative in the art they make and seek out-her performances on stage, part mime and part modern dance, illustrating violence against fearful yet resilient citizens, as well as musicians they support in underground clubs, including Mohsen Namjou (the "Bob Dylan of Iran"). ❋ Unknown (2010)

In these different examples the "correlative" changes are only _solidary_ changes (not to mention the fact that they are really ❋ Henri Bergson (1900)

I. i.65 (149,2) and just at this dead hour] The old reading is, _jump at this same hour; same_ is a kind of correlative to _jump; just_ is in the oldest folio. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

"I think it's kind of correlative with the music scene and the art scene. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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