correspondence
cor·res·pon·dence
noun
1.
communication by the exchange of letters
2.
compatibility of observations
- “there was no agreement between theory and measurement”
- “the results of two tests were in correspondence”
3.
the relation of correspondence in degree or size or amount
4.
5.
communication by exchange of letters
6.
7.
similarity by virtue of correspondence
Origin
From Middle English correspondence, from Latin correspondentia. By surface analysis, correspond + -ence.
Phrases
- correspondence chess
- correspondence course
- correspondence principle
- Curry-Howard correspondence
- grapheme-phoneme correspondence
- law of correspondence
- lexical correspondence
- Robinson-Schensted correspondence
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