What is "correlatives"

Usage examples of "correlatives".

If in his judgment it throws any light on one of the deeper mysteries of our nature,--the repulsions which play such a formidable part in social life, and which must be recognized as the correlatives of the affinities that distribute the individuals governed by them in the face of impediments which seem to be impossibilities,--then it may be freely given to the world.

Faulkner, a great fan of Eliot, uses objective correlatives throughout As I Lay Dying to get you to experience his characters' feelings.

He has shown the others where, in normal-space reckoning, the star of Planet A is located, according to the set of correlatives that he has worked out.

The right to govern and the duty to obey are correlatives, and the one cannot exist or be conceived without the other.

Thin and angular said, "But in that case, why don't they have correlatives in the computer files?