Other forms: correlated, correlates, correlating
To correlate is to move together in a way that suggests a link. The two correlate closely, correlate with income, strongly correlated.
The warning attached to it is the most repeated line in statistics: things that correlate need not cause each other, and a third factor often explains both. It nearly always takes with.
1verbcorrelateTo move together in a way that suggests a link.
“Children's reading scores tend to correlate with the number of books in their homes.”
correlate is a relating.
Proto-Indo-European
*telh₂- (bear)
Latin
relātus
English
relate
English, today
correlate
Built from
From cor- + relate. relate comes from Latin relātus, perfect passive participle of referō (“carry back; report”), see -ate. a doublet of refer. See also infer, collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prefer and prelate among others.
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