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Correlation   /kˌɔrəlˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Correlation  n.  Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases.
Correlation of energy, the relation to one another of different forms of energy; usually having some reference to the principle of conservation of energy. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation.
Correlation of forces, the relation between the forces which matter, endowed with various forms of energy, may exert.






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"Correlation" Quotes from Famous Books



... of primitive peoples suggest that this correlation of the attributes of blood and shells went much deeper than the similarity of their use in burial ceremonies and for making necklaces and bracelets. The fact that the monthly effusion of blood in women ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith

... KENT: A correlation on the occurrence of the fat- soluble vitamine. J. Biol. Chem., ...
— The Vitamine Manual • Walter H. Eddy

... between diverse things through a perception of unity. The instrument of the purely mundane consciousness, on the other hand, is the reason, which dissevers and dissects phenomena, divining unity through correlation. Now if physical phenomena, in all their manifoldness, are lower-dimensional projections, upon a lower-dimensional space, of a higher unity, then reason and intuition are seen to be two modes of one intelligence, engaged in ...
— Four-Dimensional Vistas • Claude Fayette Bragdon

... undulatory theory of light called for the extension of the same theory to heat, and this promptly suggested the hypothesis of a correlation, material connection, and transmutability of heat, light, electricity, magnetism, etc.; which hypothesis the physicists held in absolute suspense until very lately, but are now generally adopting. If not already established as a system, ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray

... FIELD OF INQUIRY WILL BE OPENED, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct action of external conditions, and so ...
— Luck or Cunning? • Samuel Butler


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