correlate (korelat)

and n. [= Sp. corre lato, IMG:content-1350.png:[blocks in formation] the relation of paternity, to father ative relation. consciousne of moral law. Adams on , Philos. of Kant, p. 116. correlation (kor-ē-lā'shon), n. [= F. corréla tion = Sp. correlacion = Pg. correlação = It. correlazione , correlatio (n-), correlatus , reciprocally related: see correlate , v., and relation.] 1. Reciprocal relation; interdependence or interconnection. The term correlation , which I selected as the title of my Lectures in 1843, strictly interpreted, means a nece ary mutual or reciprocal dependence of two ideas, inseparable even in mental conception; thus, the idea of height cannot exist without involving the idea of its correlate, depth; the idea of parent cannot exist without involving the idea of offspring. W. R. Grove, Corr. of Forces, p. 183. and its political and social organization. There is a correlation between the creeds of a society Leslie Stephen , Eng. Thought, i. § 13. 2. The act of bringing into orderly connection or reciprocal relation. If there exists any chief engineer of the universe, who knows all its powers and properties, such a person could work miracles without end, by new correlations of forces and matter. Dawson, Nature and the Bible, p. 32. 3. In physiol., specifically, the interdependence of organs or functions; the reciprocal relations of organs. Every movement in a muscle presupposes the existence of a nerve; and both of these organs presuppose the existence of a nutrient system. In this way one function has an intimate connection with other apparently dis similar functions. This relation.. is known as corre- lati on . Gegenbaur , Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 57. Some instances of correlation are quite whimsical: thus, cats which are entirely white and have blue eyes are gen- erally deaf. Darwin , Origin of Species, p. 26. It is an ascertained fact, that when one part of an animal is modified, some other parts almost always change, as it were in sympathy with it. Mr. Darwin calls this " correlation of growth." A. R. Wallace, Nat. Select., p. 810. 4. In geom., such a relation between two planes that to each intersection of lines in either