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Correlate vs Correlation - What's the difference?

correlate | correlation |

Correlation is a related term of correlate.



As nouns the difference between correlate and correlation

is that correlate is either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative while correlation is a reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects.

As a verb correlate

is to compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics.

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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    correlation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects
  • (statistics) One of the several measures of the linear statistical relationship between two random variables, indicating both the strength and direction of the relationship.
  • An isomorphism from a projective space to the dual of a projective space, often to the dual of itself.
  • Derived terms

    * autocorrelation * correlation coefficient * Pearson correlation