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cor·re·spond·ing

(kôr′ĭ-spŏn′dĭng, kŏr′-)

adj.

1. Having the same or nearly the same relationship.

2. Accompanying another: a high corporate position and its corresponding problems.

a. Having been assigned the responsibility of written communications: a corresponding secretary.

b. Participating at a distance from the rest of a group: a corresponding member of the bar association.

cor′re·spond′ing·ly adv.

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corresponding

(ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndɪŋ)

adj

parallel; equivalent

Also (archaic): corresponsive

ˌcorreˈspondingly adv

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cor•re•spond•ing

(ˌkɔr əˈspɒn dɪŋ, ˌkɒr-)

adj.

1. identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.

2. similar in position, purpose, form, etc.: corresponding officials in two states.

3. associated in a working or other relationship: a bolt and its corresponding nut.

4. dealing with correspondence: a corresponding secretary.

5. employing the mails as a means of association: a corresponding member of a club.

[1570–80]

cor`re•spond′ing•ly, adv.

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Adj.	1.	corresponding - accompanying; "all rights carry with them corresponding responsibilities" related, related to - being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics ; "painting and the related arts"; "school-related activities"; "related to micelle formation is the...ability of detergent actives to congregate at oil-water interfaces"
	2.	corresponding - similar especially in position or purpose; "a number of corresponding diagonal points" similar - marked by correspondence or resemblance; "similar food at similar prices"; "problems similar to mine"; "they wore similar coats"
	3.	corresponding - conforming in every respect; "boxes with corresponding dimensions"; "the like period of the preceding year" comparable, like same - closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree; "curtains the same color as the walls"; "two girls of the same age"; "mother and son have the same blue eyes"; "animals of the same species"; "the same rules as before"; "two boxes having the same dimensions"; "the same day next year"

corresponding

adjective equivalent, matching, similar, related, correspondent, identical, complementary, synonymous, reciprocal, analogous, interrelated, correlative March and April sales this year were up 8 per cent on the corresponding period last year.

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corresponding

adjective

1. In keeping with one's needs or expectations:

accordant, agreeable, compatible, conformable, congenial, congruous, consistent, consonant, correspondent, harmonious.

2. Possessing the same or almost the same characteristics:

alike, analogous, comparable, equivalent, like, parallel, similar, uniform.

Translations

مُوافِق، مُنْسَجِـم، مُشابِه

odpovídajícípříslušný

tilsvarende

samsvarandi

odpovedajúci

corresponding

[ˌkɒrɪsˈpɒndɪŋ] ADJ → correspondiente

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corresponding

[ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndɪŋ] adj (= parallel) [period, event] → correspondant(e); [figure] → correspondant(e); [increase, decrease] → parallèle
corresponding to (= matching) → qui correspond à

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corresponding

adj → entsprechend

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corresponding

[ˌkɒrɪsˈpɒndɪŋ] adj → corrispondente

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correspond

(korəˈspond) verb

1. (with to) to be similar; to match. A bird's wing corresponds to the arm and hand in humans.

2. (with with) to be in agreement with; to match.

3. to communicate by letter (with). Do they often correspond (with each other)?

ˌcorreˈspondence noun

1. agreement; similarity or likeness.

2. (communication by) letters. I must deal with that (big pile of) correspondence.

ˌcorreˈspondent noun

1. a person with whom one exchanges letters. He has correspondents all over the world.

2. a person who contributes news to a newspaper etc. He's foreign correspondent for `The Times'.

ˌcorreˈsponding adjective

similar, matching. The rainfall this month is not as high as for the corresponding month last year.

correspondence course

a course of lessons by post. a correspondence course in accountancy.

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Today he ordered such and such papers to be written to Vienna, to Berlin, and to Petersburg; tomorrow such and such decrees and orders to the army, the fleet, the commissariat, and so on and so on- millions of commands, which formed a whole series corresponding to a series of events which brought the French armies into Russia.

Only the possible ones get linked up with a consecutive series of commands corresponding to a series of events, and are executed.

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Things are said to be named 'equivocally' when, though they have a common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for each.

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'That, with the view just mentioned, this Association has taken into its serious consideration a proposal, emanating from the aforesaid, Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., and three other Pickwickians hereinafter named, for forming a new branch of United Pickwickians, under the title of The Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club.

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X is the sacred symbol of ten dollars, and in such words as Xmas, Xn, etc., stands for Christ, not, as is popular supposed, because it represents a cross, but because the corresponding letter in the Greek alphabet is the initial of his name -- Xristos .

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And, as knowledge corresponded to being and ignorance of necessity to not-being, for that intermediate between being and not-being there has to be discovered a corresponding intermediate between ignorance and knowledge, if there be such?

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The bloody battle alluded to in the text, fought and won by King Harold, over his brother the rebellious Tosti, and an auxiliary force of Danes or Norsemen, was said, in the text, and a corresponding note, to have taken place at Stamford, in Leicestershire, and upon the river Welland.

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If the several formations in these regions have not been deposited during the same exact periods,--a formation in one region often corresponding with a blank interval in the other,--and if in both regions the species have gone on slowly changing during the accumulation of the several formations and during the long intervals of time between them; in this case, the several formations in the two regions could be arranged in the same order, in accordance with the general succession of the form of life, and the order would falsely appear to be strictly parallel; nevertheless the species would not all be the same in the apparently corresponding stages in the two regions.

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On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.

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Rafael, some Spanish missionaries [14] encountered "many icebergs, some great, some small, and others middle-sized," in a narrow arm of the sea, on the 22nd of the month corresponding with our June, and in a latitude corresponding with that of the Lake of Geneva !

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As regards the corresponding members, notices were delivered by hundreds throughout the streets of the city, and, large as was the great hall, it was quite inadequate to accommodate the crowd of savants .

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There was with her a feeling of having descended in the social scale, with a corresponding sense of having risen in the spiritual.