Correlate meaning

What does “correlate” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“correlate” is a noun, verb and adjective with 4 meanings. Its most common meaning is: either of two or more related or complementary variables.

correlate

noun

  1. either of two or more related or complementary variables

    Synonymscorrelative

verb

  1. to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation

    “Do these facts correlate?”

  2. bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation

    “I cannot correlate these two pieces of information”

adjective

  1. mutually related

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University