CORRELATIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does correlative mean? 

• CORRELATIVE (noun)
  The noun CORRELATIVE has 1 sense:

1. either of two or more related or complementary variables

  Familiarity information: CORRELATIVE used as a noun is very rare.

• CORRELATIVE (adjective)
  The adjective CORRELATIVE has 2 senses:

1. mutually related

2. expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation

  Familiarity information: CORRELATIVE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORRELATIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of two or more related or complementary variables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

correlate; correlative

Hypernyms ("correlative" is a kind of...):

variable; variable quantity (a quantity that can assume any of a set of values)

• CORRELATIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mutually related

Synonyms:

correlate; correlated; correlative

Similar:

related; related to (being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics)

Derivation:

correlate (bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation)

correlate (to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation)

correlativity (a reciprocal relation between two or more things)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation

Context example:

correlative conjunctions

Similar:

mutual; reciprocal (concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return)

Domain category:

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))

Derivation:

correlativity (a reciprocal relation between two or more things)

 Context examples 

A funding mechanism and prioritization process for essential correlative studies and quality of life studies that are incorporated into the fundamental design of a clinical trial.

(Biomarker Imaging Quality of Life Studies Funding Program, NCI Thesaurus)

The Familial Cancer Risk Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with clinical genetic expertise, data on familial genetic syndromes, germline mutations and cancer modifier genes; access to a database of genotyped probands with hereditary cancers; and clinical specimens with correlative epidemiologic data from subjects with genetically verified hereditary cancer.

(Familial Cancer Risk Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)