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co⋅rel⋅a⋅tive

[kuh-rel-uh-tiv]
–adjective, noun Chiefly British.
correlative.

Origin:
co- + relative


co⋅rel⋅a⋅tive⋅ly, adverb

cor⋅rel⋅a⋅tive

[kuh-rel-uh-tiv]
–adjective
1. so related that each implies or complements the other.
2. being in correlation; mutually related.
3. Grammar. answering to or complementing one another and regularly used in association, as either and or, not only and but.
4. Biology. (of a typical structure of an organism) found in correlation with another.
–noun
5. either of two things, as two terms, that are correlative.
6. Grammar. a correlative expression.
Also, especially British, corelative.


Origin:
1520–30; < ML correlātīvus. See cor-, relative


cor⋅rel⋅a⋅tive⋅ly, adverb
cor⋅rel⋅a⋅tive⋅ness, cor⋅rel⋅a⋅tiv⋅i⋅ty, noun
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