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corresponding

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

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adjective

identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.

similar in position, purpose, form, etc.: corresponding officials in two states.

associated in a working or other relationship: a bolt and its corresponding nut.

dealing with correspondence: a corresponding secretary.

employing the mails as a means of association: a corresponding member of a club.

Origin:
1570–80; correspond + -ing²

Related forms

cor·re·spond·ing·ly, adverb

non·cor·res·pond·ing, adjective, noun

non·cor·res·pond·ing·ly, adverb

un·cor·re·spond·ing, adjective

un·cor·re·spond·ing·ly, adverb

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Example Sentences

The rainfall thus far this season has exceeded any record of corresponding periods in past years.

In some ways, self-paced online courses are a throwback to the days when learning at a distance meant corresponding by mail.

Every rouble would be backed by a corresponding ten cents in the central-bank vaults.

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The rainfall thus far this season has exceeded any record of corresponding periods in past years.

In some ways, self-paced online courses are a throwback to the days when learning at a distance meant corresponding by mail.

Every rouble would be backed by a corresponding ten cents in the central-bank vaults.

Call is higher pitched than corresponding call of the herring gull.

Color is used to indicate wave intensity, red corresponding to strong waves, blue corresponding to weak waves.

When one climbs a mountain one finds changes of climate corresponding to what would be found if one were to travel northward.

Leela comes with seven movement-based games, each of which stimulates activity at its corresponding chakra.

With the increased popularity of pharmacy as a profession for women, there is a corresponding increase in the.

Understanding issues related to the levels of student preparation, its corresponding pedagogy and student development.

Each chromosome in an individual is a chimera of the corresponding chromosomes in one of his or her parents.

Draw the symbol or symbols inherited from the corresponding round two cards.

Each type also has a corresponding antiparticle, called an antineutrino.

Soon people who hadn't been in touch since bonding on jungle battlefields a generation ago started corresponding.

The improbability of such an oscillation, affecting five continents and the corresponding sea floors, is at once manifest.

If you are corresponding via e-mail, you can take it down slightly.

More complex strategies take longer to calculate and match with corresponding trades.

Place the new cards in a row directly below the corresponding cards from round two.

The corresponding wavelength would be measured in a few fermis.

Second, the main job of any particular gene is to instruct cells to make its corresponding protein.

When you're in a given situation, pull out the corresponding file.

There was a corresponding leap in real interest rates over this time period.

Each advance-the domestication of animals, irrigation, wet rice production-led to a corresponding jump in human population.

When experimenters threaten the fake hand, brain areas corresponding to threat responses and withdrawal urges become more active.

Raffaele would be interested in corresponding with me.

The situation is different across the country, corresponding roughly to dual orthodoxies.

It would be interesting to see the number of kids that read for pleasure and the corresponding results.

They all fell into two distinct generations, corresponding to two distinct droughts.

Serotonin and glutamate are two of them, and they have corresponding receptors to accept their chemical messages.

Name the category and add a corresponding contact or two.

Although consumers clearly lost out there were no corresponding overall gains for retailers.

Exact locations corresponding to patches were kept secret, to protect newly-discovered sites from looting.

It would help a lot to have the corresponding images though.

He urges cuts in welfare contributions, but has yet to show where the corresponding savings would be made.

Give each student a lanyard corresponding to the color of their team.

These words are then stored along with the links to the corresponding pages in an index file.

It is simply a question of looking in the corresponding piece of human chromosome.

Check your monitor size and download the corresponding resolution.

They are less happy to deliver the corresponding service.

Grover's algorithm would enhance the state in the system corresponding to the desired item and suppress the others.

If the long term has a lot less nuclear power in it, there will be a corresponding need for gas and probably coal.

He further notes that other bacteria have corresponding phage enzymes, too.

Corresponding provisions are set up in the balance sheet, and these increase each year to reflect the unwinding of the discount.

Another approach is to ask the user to enter a postcode or phone number corresponding to his location, but that is clunky.

And, this with a corresponding disastrous multiplier impact on aggregate demand in the wider economy.

Divide the students into small groups, providing each with one of the following newspaper headlines and its corresponding year:.

Therefore, for every entry there's a corresponding scientific principle that relates to the site.

In no corresponding month in several years has the number of these arrivals been so large.

Likewise, observing hand and foot images engaged the corresponding brain regions.

Tapping on the image of a key produces the corresponding character on the.

Twenty keys can be stored on it and identified with numbered tags placed in slots with corresponding numbers.

The editor of the press will then make a final decision after corresponding with the book editor.

Scientists also videotape the animals' corresponding behavior and feed the data into a modified human speech-recognition program.

Neugroschl s team reported reactivation of the corresponding neural hand map as early as ten days after the operation".

Each provides increasing levels of pep, with a corresponding ding to range.

Eighteen hundred and ninety-four, up to the present time, has been the warmest of any corresponding period since.

Next to the country names they should draw or write symbols for the corresponding company or companies.

There are four dimensions of the physical realm with four corresponding bodies.

The riddles have the key to decrypting the corresponding name.

As more casual athletes sign up for triathlons, the sport has seen a corresponding rise in injuries.

When a mobile device containing a corresponding coil was brought near the.

However, detecting any corresponding ozone recovery has been.

Based on requirements, design and technical specifications defines required tests and corresponding test data.

There has been no corresponding decline, however, in the need of elderly men and women for health services.

Therefore for every short position there is a corresponding long position, and the market's net bet on the corporation is.

But there has been no corresponding improvement in pupils' performance.

As well, satellite observations of average sea level rise show no corresponding change in the rate of global sea level increase.

Anywhere that has low breastfeeding rates has corresponding infant mortality.

L, both corresponding members, who were president.

We cannot have useful discussion of religion without corresponding interest in spirituality.

Yet drivers themselves are sometimes unaware of sleepiness, reduced alertness and corresponding impaired driving.

The letter-number combinations show the relationship between each area and its corresponding sensory nerve.

Deep shipping channels alter water salinity throughout the marshes and produce corresponding ecological shifts.

They found more than seven types of rocks with different features corresponding to how the rock particles were deposited.

They identified regions that hadn't changed in chimps, then compared these to corresponding stretches of the human genome.

In some of the earliest dinosaurs, fossils reveal vestiges of two outer digits corresponding to the human ring finger and pinkie.

It could mean a relatively cheap way to expand dry ice applications and their corresponding market.

With this rush to modernity came a corresponding tendency to jettison symbols of the island's heritage.

If their senses were integrated more with a sense of smell corresponding to their bigger noses.

Let them do the expert filtering, selecting the best products and writing the corresponding reviews for.

They are taxed on an amount corresponding to their annual rent multiplied by five.

To the extent that housing wealth matters, however, the housing bust has likely contributed to a corresponding baby bust.

Each card in the deck contains one combination of pig positions and a corresponding number of points.

The program rewards users of the card by granting them points corresponding to the amount of their expenditures.

With a sharp picture of potential futures and corresponding plans of action, you'll always be one step ahead.

The current stimulates the muscles to a remarkable degree, and fat disappears at a corresponding rate.

But those studies had a hard time resolving relatively small color shifts corresponding to subtle changes in a star's.

All you need to do is connect the alligator clips from your tap of choice to the corresponding wires.

The problem isn't that writers and their editors are corresponding less.

By wearing the corresponding colors over our eyes, each eye sees a different picture.

She produced statistics showing a decrease in lung ailments among men and a corresponding increase among.

The problem with politicians is that they plan on a five-year period, corresponding to their electoral term.

Here, you can tap a listing to open the corresponding card in the corresponding account.

Cooks achieve these reductions by maintaining food at a given temperature for a corresponding length of time.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used without object)

to be in agreement or conformity (often followed by with or to): His actions do not correspond with his words.

to be similar or analogous; be equivalent in function, position, amount, etc. (usually followed by to): The U.S. Congress corresponds to the British Parliament.

to communicate by exchange of letters.

Origin:
1520–30; < (< Middle French ) Medieval Latin corrēspondēre. See cor-, respond

Related forms

cor·re·spond·ing·ly, adverb

pre·cor·re·spond, verb (used without object)

Synonyms
1. harmonize, match, tally. Correspond, agree, accord imply comparing persons or things and finding that they harmonize. Correspond suggests having an obvious similarity, though not agreeing in every detail: Part of this report corresponds with the facts. Agree implies having or arriving at a condition in which no essential difference of opinion or detail is evident: All the reports agree. Accord emphasizes agreeing exactly, both in fact and in point of view: This report accords with the other.

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Word Origin & History

correspond

1520s, "to be in agreement, to be in harmony with," from M.L. correspondere, from cor- (see com-) "together, with each other" + respondere "to answer" (see respond). Originally in M.L. of two things in mutual action, but by later M.L. it could

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be used of one thing only. In English, sense of "to be similar" (to) is from 1640s; that of "to hold communication with" is from c.1600; specifically "to communicate by means of letters" from 1640s (in mid-18c. it also could mean "have sex").

corresponding

1570s, from correspond. Not common until 19c., when it took on the adj. function of correspondent. Related: Correspondingly (1836).

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