verb (past and past participlecor·re·lat·ed, present participlecor·re·lat·ing, 3rd person present singularcor·re·lates)
Definition:
1. transitive and intransitive verb have or show mutual relationship: to have a mutual or complementary relationship, or show that two or more things such as a cause and an effect have a mutual or complementary relationship How do these results correlate with your findings?
2. transitive verb gather and compare things: to gather together and compare related things such as results or reports Her job is to correlate the statistics from a range of sources and prepare a report.
adjective
Definition:
having shared properties: having mutual or complementary properties
noun (pluralcor·re·lates)
Definition:
1. complementary thing: something that shares mutual or complementary properties with something else
2. statistics variable related to another variable: either of two variables that are related with the result that a variation in one is accompanied by a linear variation of the other
