Correlate vs Correlator - What's the difference?
correlate | correlator |
To compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics
To be related by a correlation
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That which correlates or causes correlation
(statistics, quantum physics) A correlation function
(optics, signal processing) A type of device used to compare two signals
As nouns the difference between correlate and correlator
is that correlate is either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative while correlator is that which correlates or causes correlation.As a verb correlate
is to compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics.correlate
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Verb
- 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.