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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
correspondence
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a correspondence course (=in which you work at home, sending work to a teacher by post)
a correspondence/letters column (=that prints some of the letters a newspaper receives)
▪ Thousands of letters poured in to the correspondence column.
correspondence course
▪ I’m taking a correspondence course in business studies.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
final
▪ The judge's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. 5.
▪ The decision of the judges, including that of the Editor, is final and no correspondence can entered into.
other
▪ These letters were always put on top of other correspondence in the headmistress's study.
▪ Only enclose the official entry coupon; no other correspondence should be enclosed in the envelope.
▪ The response to that questionnaire, together with other correspondence and submissions, forms the basis of what follows.
personal
▪ We regret that no personal correspondence can be entered into without a stamped-addressed envelope.
▪ Presidential families have gone to great lengths before to preserve the privacy of their personal correspondence.
▪ Unfortunately, Practically Speaking can not enter into personal correspondence on any topic - all correspondence must be conducted via Practically Speaking.
▪ No little red book, no reference to anybody named Blackman, no clippings, no cryptic notes, no personal correspondence.
▪ Packages can be sealed and can contain personal correspondence if it relates to the contents of the package.
▪ During the afternoon he takes care of personal correspondence and his reading.
▪ Printed Paper items must not contain personal correspondence or tapes.
▪ After Geneva, Reagan had established an informal personal correspondence with the Soviet leader.
private
▪ They said it also violates privacy rights by outlawing some expression within private e-mail correspondence between individuals.
■ NOUN
business
▪ Comprehensive index gives access to information on any aspect of business correspondence.
▪ Now there's another element of business correspondence that could do with some attention and purpose behind it.
▪ It is the main form of internal business correspondence and the means used to communicate the majority of written messages.
column
▪ It even raised adverse comments within the correspondence columns of Gay News itself.
course
▪ My eldest brother, Joe, used to take correspondence courses, so one lived in an environment of self-improvement.
▪ They both signed up for a five-dollar correspondence course in how to make ice cream.
▪ He returned to Carriacou and qualified as a solicitor through a London University correspondence course.
▪ He is also charged with taking a correspondence course at the University of California at Berkeley.
▪ Continuing a correspondence course is easy; finding another part-time degree may be less so.
▪ For families outside the local area, a correspondence course available in 23 languages currently serves 2,500 families from around the world.
▪ But over the years she'd studied hard - correspondence courses, night classes, anything she could lay her hands on.
▪ The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular.
■ VERB
deal
▪ He had no visitors, although once or twice a week his secretary might come to deal with his correspondence.
▪ This is something that must be discussed with the client rather than be dealt with in correspondence.
▪ Most business people receive so much correspondence that it is difficult for them to deal with all their correspondence immediately on receipt.
enter
▪ Unfortunately, Practically Speaking can not enter into personal correspondence on any topic - all correspondence must be conducted via Practically Speaking.
▪ Lesley regrets that she can not enter into any direct correspondence with readers.
▪ Robin Dewhurst is unable to enter into any correspondence regarding holiday enquiries.
keep
▪ We knew Malcolm had been really impressed with Hell in New York because they kept up a correspondence.
▪ With her was Nora Alstulund, her secretary, for she needed to keep current with correspondence and articles as she went.
▪ Nkrumah managed to keep up a correspondence by writing on lavatory paper which he wheedled out of his cellmates.
▪ Wherever possible the Institute attempts to keep the amount of correspondence to a minimum.
read
▪ How pilot medicals will change I have read with interest the correspondence concerning medical fees.
▪ Most days I lunched alone at my desk on a bowl of soup while reading correspondence and scribbling replies.
▪ You know that she read archeology by correspondence when she was at finishing school.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ And so began a long correspondence and a friendship with his distant cousin in Paris.
▪ I start my day by reading correspondence and scribbling replies.
▪ The biography is based on Marx's correspondence with Engels over 40 years.
▪ Your fax should include copies of any correspondence you have received from our office.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Finally, the findings are not necessarily consistent with each other, although substantial areas of correspondence exist.
▪ He picked up the correspondence and miscellaneous papers in the in-tray and quickly scanned the contents.
▪ In theory, she studied domestic science - dressmaking and cooking - and took a pitman's correspondence and typing course.
▪ It is only a pity your correspondence can't be read by the Palace.
▪ Our concern in this section is merely to consider what use could be made today of correspondence for sociological purposes.
▪ Tin-plate models continue to provide a mass of correspondence.
▪ Unfortunately, Practically Speaking can not enter into personal correspondence on any topic - all correspondence must be conducted via Practically Speaking.
▪ Why do they express contempt for any correspondence theories of epistemology that involve attentive engagement with the real?
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Correspondence

Correspondence \Cor`re*spond"ence\ (-sp?nd"ens), n. [Cf. F. correspondance.]

  1. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.

    Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state.
    --Bacon.

    To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post office.
    --Macaulay.

  2. The letters which pass between correspondents.

  3. Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
correspondence

early 15c., "harmony, agreement," from Medieval Latin correspondentia, from correspondentem (nominative correspondens), present participle of correspondere (see correspond). Sense of "communication by letters" is first attested 1640s.

Wiktionary
correspondence

n. 1 (context uncountable English) Friendly discussion. 2 (senseid en reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters)(context uncountable English) reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters. 3 (context countable English) An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome. 4 (context uncountable English) Newspaper or news stories, generally. 5 (context countable English) A postal or other written communication. 6 (context uncountable English) Postal or other written communications. 7 (context set theory countable English) A relation.

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WordNet
correspondence

  1. n. communication by the exchange of letters

  2. compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement between theory and measurement"; "the results of two tests were in correspondence" [syn: agreement]

  3. the relation of correspondence in degree or size or amount [syn: commensurateness, proportionateness]

  4. a function such that for every element of one set there is a unique element of another set [syn: mapping, map]

  5. communication by exchange of letters

  6. (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact correspondence of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane [syn: symmetry, symmetricalness, balance] [ant: asymmetry]

  7. similarity by virtue of correspondence [syn: parallelism]

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Wikipedia
Correspondence

Correspondence may refer to:

Correspondence (theology)

The term "correspondence" was coined by the 18th century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg in his Arcana Coelestia (1749–1756), Heaven and Hell (1758) and other works.

Correspondence (album)

Correspondence is the first full-length studio album by Peter Godwin. The album was released in 1983.

Correspondence (A Fiction)

Correspondence (A Fiction) is second studio album by Levi the Poet, and he released the album on November 17, 2014.

Correspondence (mathematics)

In mathematics and mathematical economics, correspondence is a term with several related but distinct meanings.

  • In general mathematics, a correspondence is an ordered triple (X,Y,R), where R is a relation from X to Y, i.e. any subset of the Cartesian product X×Y.
  • One-to-one correspondence is an alternate name for a bijection. For instance, in projective geometry the mappings are correspondences between projective ranges.
  • In algebraic geometry, a correspondence between algebraic varieties V and W is in the same fashion a subset R of V×W, which is in addition required to be closed in the Zariski topology. It therefore means any relation that is defined by algebraic equations. There are some important examples, even when V and W are algebraic curves: for example the Hecke operators of modular form theory may be considered as correspondences of modular curves.
However, the definition of a correspondence in algebraic geometry is not completely standard. For instance, Fulton, in his book on Intersection theory, uses the definition above. In literature, however, a correspondence from a variety X to a variety Y is often taken to be a subset Z of X×Y such that Z is finite and surjective over each component of X. Note the asymmetry in this latter definition; which talks about a correspondence from X to Y rather than a correspondence between X and Y. The typical example of the latter kind of correspondence is the graph of a function f:X→Y. Correspondences also play an important role in the construction of motives.
  • In category theory, a correspondence from C to D is a functor C × D → Set. It is the "opposite" of a profunctor.
  • In von Neumann algebra theory, a correspondence is a synonym for a von Neumann algebra bimodule.
  • In economics, a correspondence between two sets A and B is a map f:A→P(B) from the elements of the set A to the power set of B. This is similar to a correspondence as defined in general mathematics (i.e., a relation,) except that the range is over sets instead of elements. However, there is usually the additional property that for all a in A, f(a) is not empty. In other words, each element in A maps to a non-empty subset of B; or in terms of a relation R as subset of A×B, R projects to A surjectively. A correspondence with this additional property is thought of as the generalization of a function, rather than as a special case of a relation, and is referred to in other contexts as a multivalued function.
An example of a correspondence in this sense is the best response correspondence in game theory, which gives the optimal action for a player as a function of the strategies of all other players. If there is always a unique best action given what the other players are doing, then this is a function. If for some opponent's strategy, there is a set of best responses that are equally good, then this is a correspondence.
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Usage examples of "correspondence".

The shape of the basilar membrane and its position in the ear are such that there is a direct correspondence between the frequency of each sine wave component of a sound and the positions of the hair cells activated by that component.

Nothing written in her own hand would survive--no letters, diaries, or legal papers with her signature--nor any correspondence addressed to her by any of her family, and so, since it is also known that letters were frequently read aloud to her, there is reason to believe that Susanna Boylston Adams was illiterate.

She could quote poetry more readily than could John Adams, and over a lifetime would quote her favorites again and again in correspondence, often making small, inconsequential mistakes, an indication that rather than looking passages up, she was quoting from memory.

Between times, on his own, Adams maintained correspondence with James Warren, James Lovell, Elbridge Gerry, Samuel Adams, and Benjamin Rush.

From his rooms on the Rue de Richelieu, Adams issued almost daily correspondence, writing at times two and three letters a day, these addressed to President Samuel Huntington and filled with reports on British politics, British and French naval activities, or his own considered views on European affairs.

In voluminous correspondence with members of Congress and in his private writings, Adams had not a complaining or disrespectful word to say about Franklin, nothing of the bitter disdain expressed in letters the year before.

While Jefferson would have much to say about the Constitution and the need for a bill of rights in subsequent private correspondence with Madison, he made no public statement for the time being, whereas Adams sent off a strong endorsement to John Jay that was to be widely quoted at home.

Nowhere in his correspondence with Adams did Jefferson suggest he was suffering anything like what Adams had predicted retirement to Monticello would do to him.

Like other Republicans, Jefferson failed to understand how Adams could reconcile negotiation for peace with measures of defense, and in private correspondence accused Adams of willfully endangering the peace.

Abigail was not to expect much in the way of correspondence from him, Adams told her.

On November 19, Adams wrote the following at the bottom of her letter-book copy: The whole of this correspondence was begun and conducted without my knowledge or suspicion.

In the course of his correspondence with Adams, Rush had already related several dreams of his own.

I know of Henry Wentworth Akeley was gathered by correspondence with his neighbours, and with his only son in California, after my experience in his lonely farmhouse.

Post-swatly, I went on, I took from the chest my only correspondence with Andromeda, love-letters written during my youthful trip to Larissa, and posted them with the others in the Gulf of Argolis.

For the Word in its bosom is spiritual, containing arcana of divine wisdom, and in order to contain them has been composed throughout in correspondences and representations.