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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



... Laboratory, and of these as increasingly co-ordinated. Indeed, is not such association of observations and experiments, are not such institutions actually incipient here and elsewhere? I need not multiply instances of the correlation of science and art, as of chemistry with agriculture, or biology with medicine. Yet, on the strictly sociological plane and in civic application they are as yet less generally evident, though such obvious connections as that of vital statistics with hygienic ...
— Civics: as Applied Sociology • Patrick Geddes

... in the body of the book as well as in a grammatical appendix. The work on the verb is intensive in character, work in other directions being reduced to a minimum while this is going on. The forms of the subjunctive are studied in correlation ...
— Latin for Beginners • Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge

... of sensation and correlation are those portions of the cerebral substance, the molecular changes of which give rise to impressions of sensation ...
— Hume - (English Men of Letters Series) • T.H. Huxley

... first of these was the doctrine of conservation of energy and the correlation of forces. This doctrine is really quite simple, and may be outlined as follows: In the universe, as we know it, there exists a certain amount of energy or power of doing work. This amount of energy can neither be increased ...
— The Story of the Living Machine • H. W. Conn

... costume go very far indeed to establish and augment the estimation of printed volumes with manuscript tokens of former proprietorship. The collector who chooses this field of activity has to weigh the correlation and harmony between the volume itself and the individual or individuals to whom it once appertained. We have usually to content ourselves with the interest resident in an autograph, with or without further particulars; it is a book, perhaps, which formed ...
— The Book-Collector • William Carew Hazlitt


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