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third-person singular simple present correlates, present participle correlating, simple past and past participle correlated
(transitive) To compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics. examples
(intransitive) To be related by a correlation; to be correlated. quotations examples
Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice.
1871, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture
As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, pages 3-4
plural correlates
Either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative. examples