Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Correspondence   /kˌɔrəspˈɑndəns/   Listen
Correspondence

noun
1.
Communication by the exchange of letters.
2.
Compatibility of observations.  Synonym: agreement.  "The results of two tests were in correspondence"
3.
The relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount.  Synonyms: commensurateness, proportionateness.
4.
(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane.  Synonyms: balance, symmetricalness, symmetry.
5.
Similarity by virtue of corresponding.  Synonym: parallelism.



Related searches:



WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Correspondence" Quotes from Famous Books



... however, I would not do. I would not enter into correspondence with Lancelot, and I would not go any more to Master Davies's house. Lancelot wrote again and yet again to me. But I served the second letter as I had served the first, and the third as I had served the second. I did, indeed, scrawl some few lines of reply to this last ...
— Marjorie • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... a star," Jack admitted. "But I hope he will not insist upon keeping up the correspondence with Cora. He ...
— The Motor Girls On Cedar Lake - The Hermit of Fern Island • Margaret Penrose

... Coleridge's delightful book. A hundred? Ten? Five? I doubt it. Or how many have so much as borrowed from the circulating library Mrs. Cunninghame Graham's first-rate book? Of Teresa's Letters, that greatest living authority on Teresa says—'That long series of epistolary correspondence, so enchanting in the original. It is in her letters that Teresa is at her best. They reveal all her shrewdness about business and money matters; her talent for administration; her intense interest in life, and in all that is passing around her. Her letters show ...
— Santa Teresa - an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings • Alexander Whyte

... the head of the Roman church laud the murder of Henry III. of France. The deed was reckoned by his holiness as glorious a work as the incarnation of the Saviour, and his resurrection from the dead. Surely, the principles and practices of the church, were in exact correspondence at that time. The principles have never been relinquished; but circumstances control the actions of the church, so that she cannot kill and ...
— Guy Fawkes - or A Complete History Of The Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605 • Thomas Lathbury

... absorbed in her correspondence. She felt that Miss Keating's eyes were upon her, and as she wrote she planned a dexterous retreat. It would, she knew, be difficult, owing to Miss Keating's complete occupation of the sofa by ...
— The Immortal Moment - The Story of Kitty Tailleur • May Sinclair


More quotes...



Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com