Noun: correspondence ,kor-u'spón-dun(t)s or ,kór-i'spón-dun(t)s [N. Amer], ,kó-ri'spón-dun(t)s [Brit]
- Communication by the exchange of messages (letters, e-mails, etc.)
"They maintained a regular correspondence despite living in different countries"
- Similarity or analogy between different things
"There's a striking correspondence between the two historical events";
- parallelism
- Compatibility of observations
"the results of two tests were in correspondence";
- agreement
- The relation of corresponding in degree, size or amount
"There should be correspondence between an employee's salary and their level of responsibility";
- commensurateness, proportionateness
- (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
"The butterfly's wings show perfect correspondence";
- symmetry, symmetricalness, balance
Sounds like: correspondents
Derived forms: correspondences
Type of: 1st class, 1st-class mail, black and white, compatibility, first class, first-class mail, proportionality, similarity, spatial property, spatiality, written communication, written language
Encyclopedia: Correspondence