English Explanatory Dictionary

correlation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects.
  2. One of the several measures of the linear statistical relationship between two random variables, indicating both the strength and direction of the relationship.
  3. An isomorphism from a projective space to the dual of a projective space, often to the dual of itself.

Pronunciation

/ˌkɒɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-correlation.wav /ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/ /ˌkɑ.ɹəˈleɪ.ʃən/

Word forms

correlation correlations

Etymology

From Middle French corrélation. Morphologically correlate + -ion.

Synonyms

correlation interdependence interrelation mutuality reciprocalness reciprocity reciprocation

Related words

correlate

Derived words

anticorrelation autocorrelation bicorrelation biocorrelation correlational correlation coefficient correlation delta correlation energy correlation function correlationism correlationist correlogram correntropy corrgram countercorrelation cross-correlation crosscorrelation decorrelation discorrelation equicorrelation intercorrelation intracorrelation Kendall rank correlation coefficient midcorrelation miscorrelation multicorrelation noncorrelation Pearson correlation postcorrelation precorrelation pseudocorrelation Spearman's rank correlation coefficient stereocorrelation tephrocorrelation transcorrelation uncorrelation

Translations

Basque: korrelazio Belarusian: карэля́цыя Bulgarian: корелация Catalan: correlació Czech: korelace Dutch: correlatie Estonian: korrelatsioon Finnish: vastaavuussuhde Finnish: korrelaatio Finnish: riippuvuussuhde French: corrélation Georgian: კორელაცია German: Korrelation Hindi: सहसंबंध Hungarian: korreláció Indonesian: korelasi Italian: correlazione Italian: corrispondenza Central Kurdish: ھاوپەیوەندی گۆڕاوەکان Central Kurdish: نێوانیەتی دووسەری Persian: همبستگی Polish: korelacja Portuguese: correlação Romanian: corelație Russian: корреля́ция Spanish: correlación Swedish: korrelation Tagalog: satugnay Thai: สหสัมพันธ์ Ukrainian: кореля́ція
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