corresponding

UK/ˌkɒɹəˈspɒndɪŋ/US/ˌkɔɹəˈspɑndɪŋ/

adjectiveC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,147 of 15,258mostly written

Corresponding means matching another in kind or position. The corresponding period, a corresponding rise, the corresponding figure.

It is the standard word of comparison in reports, where the corresponding period last year is how any figure is judged. In geometry corresponding angles are the ones in matching positions where a line crosses two others.

Definitions of corresponding

1adjectivecorrespondingMatching another in kind or position.C1
“Match each word on the left with the corresponding picture on the right.”

corresponding is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin
com- — with
Middle French
correspondre
English
correspond
English, today
corresponding

Built from

respondeo · Latin — to match, to answer to

by surface analysis, correspond + -ing. correspond comes from Middle French correspondre, from Latin com- (“with”) + respondeo (“to match, to answer to”), equivalent to co- + respond.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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corresponding in the wild

The following is a list of days of the year corresponding to the Gregorian calendar.
List of days of the year
In mathematics, two sequences of numbers, often experimental data, are proportional or directly proportional if their corresponding elements have a constant ratio.
Proportionality (mathematics)
Two sequences are inversely proportional if corresponding elements have a constant product.
Proportionality (mathematics)
In many cases, a protein family has a corresponding gene family, in which each gene encodes a corresponding protein with a 1:1 relationship.
Protein family
The corresponding member is one of the possible membership types in some organizations, especially in the learned societies and scientific academies.
Corresponding member

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Related words

the respondeo family

correspond corresponding

corresponding — used about once every 5,793 pages · #10,147 · point at the bar for the others

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