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Calibrate vs Correlate - What's the difference?

calibrate | correlate |

As verbs the difference between calibrate and correlate

is that calibrate is to check or adjust by comparison with a standard while correlate is to compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics.

As a noun correlate is

either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative.

calibrate

English

(Calibration)

Verb

(calibrat)
  • To check or adjust by comparison with a standard.
  • To mark the scale of a measuring instrument.
  • To measure the caliber of a tube or gun.
  • Anagrams

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    correlate

    English

    Verb

  • To compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics
  • To be related by a correlation
  • * Tylor
  • Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice.
  • *
  • 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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative
  • Anagrams

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