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Covary vs Covery - What's the difference?

covary | covery |

As a verb covary

is to vary together with another variable, particularly in a way that may be predictive.

As a noun covery is

a dispelling of false or misleading notions.

covary

English

Verb

  • (statistics) To vary together with another variable, particularly in a way that may be predictive
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    • , passage=More specifically, to say that there is an informative criterion of diachronic identity is to say that facts of diachronic identity covary with facts about continuants’ instantaneous qualitative profiles

    Related terms

    * covariance * covariate

    covery

    English

    Noun

    (coveries)
  • (rare) a dispelling of false or misleading notions
  • * J. B. S. Haldane (1937). "Forward", Recent Advances in Genetics by C. D. Darlington, p. vi.
    • This book is indispensable not only because of the discoveries it describes, but almost equally on account of the coveries', to borrow a word from Samuel Butler. A fundamental ' covery is that the expressions "reductional division" and "equational division," those bogies of our schooldays, are meaningless.

    References

    * Samuel Butler (1921). "The Art of Covery", The Note-books of Samuel Butler *: The Art of Covery: This is as important and interesting as Dis-covery. Surely the glory of finally getting rid of and burying a long and troublesome matter should be as great as that of making an important discovery. The trouble is that the coverer is like Samson who perished in the wreck of what he had destroyed; if he gets rid of a thing effectually he gets rid of himself too.