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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
corresponding
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
change
▪ Responsibility for provision may change without corresponding changes in the source of finance.
▪ The change in the socio-moral context was hardly recognized, and the corresponding change in religious social ethics had remained unformulated.
▪ Conservation of energy requires a corresponding change in the vibrational energy of the molecule.
▪ Any change in consciousness is accompanied by a corresponding change in the biophysical system.
▪ A major change in the infrastructure will therefore produce a corresponding change in the superstructure.
▪ Conversely if the definition changed, there would probably be a corresponding change in the pupil's actions in that context.
figure
▪ In 1980 the corresponding figures were 36 percent and 23 percent.
▪ For women the corresponding figure is 5,100.
▪ Of the 39 students involved in the 1981 cohort the corresponding figure was 17.
▪ For females, the corresponding figures are 2.10, 4.66 and 14.70 percent.
▪ In February 1987 the corresponding figures were 28.6% for all candidates and 35.5% for candidates elected.
▪ Restriction fragments used as probes are described in the corresponding figure legends.
▪ In 1861, two years later, the corresponding figure was 43, a direct result of the Revival.
▪ The corresponding figure for modern schools was 15.7 percent.
figures
▪ In 1980 the corresponding figures were 36 percent and 23 percent.
▪ For females, the corresponding figures are 2.10, 4.66 and 14.70 percent.
▪ In February 1987 the corresponding figures were 28.6% for all candidates and 35.5% for candidates elected.
▪ The corresponding figures for 1991 were 17 percent. for imports and 83 percent. for domestic production.
▪ The corresponding figures for deaths before 65 years were 120 and 75.
increase
▪ At most libraries student numbers have increased but there has been no corresponding increase in the number of librarians.
▪ But there was no corresponding increase in medical knowledge during that period.
period
▪ Taxable profits in the half-year soared to £324.6m compared with £204.7m in the corresponding period in 1991.
▪ This compared with a £428,000 loss in the corresponding period last year.
▪ This compares with a profit of over £133m in the corresponding period.
▪ Sally Hamilton Percentages show quarterly sales growth compared with growth in the corresponding period of 1990.
▪ Industrial output dropped 2.5 percent last month from the corresponding period last year, Neues Deutschland said.
▪ In the first quarter of 1992 the group made £377m before tax, compared with £358m in the corresponding period last year.
▪ For the corresponding period in the previous year 818 men had been accommodated, plus 22 women and one child.
reduction
▪ The corresponding reduction in the space posteriorly restricts the canal available for the spinal cord.
▪ So increases in state spending were largely offset by corresponding reductions by taxpayers.
value
▪ The corresponding value for the distribution of iodine in benzene and water is about 400.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A big fall in steel productivity caused a corresponding decrease in profits.
▪ Compared with the corresponding period last year, average temperatures have been low.
▪ Rising real estate prices have had a corresponding effect on the area's rents.
▪ The corresponding chromosome in the other parent was found to be defective.
▪ The removal of American nuclear forces brought a corresponding withdrawal of Russian troops.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the nature of insider dealing changed, there was a corresponding need to adapt other legal doctrines to fit the abuse.
▪ Calcutta's industrial development in the 1950s occurred without a corresponding expansion in regular employment.
▪ If the slack variable is non-basic, we can pivot to make it basic and then drop the corresponding row.
▪ The corresponding figure for modern schools was 15.7 percent.
▪ There were no corresponding accretions on the floor, no moisture dripped from overhead.
▪ Unlike the radiometer, this device enables a rough image of the subject to be constructed corresponding to a fixed illumination intensity.
▪ Where files are computerised a corresponding right of access exists under the Data Protection Act 1984.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corresponding

Corresponding \Cor`re*spond"ing\, a.

  1. Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers.

  2. Carrying on intercourse by letters.

    Corresponding member of a society, one residing at a distance, who has been invited to correspond with the society, and aid in carrying out its designs without taking part in its management.

Corresponding

Correspond \Cor`re*spond"\ (k?r`r?-sp?nd"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Corresponded; p. pr. & vb. n. Corresponding.] [Pref. cor- + respond: cf. f. correspondre.]

  1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout.

    None of them [the forms of Sidney's sonnets] correspond to the Shakespearean type.
    --J. A. Symonds.

  2. To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer; -- followed by to.

    Words being but empty sounds, any farther than they are signs of our ideas, we can not but assent to them as they correspond to those ideas we have, but no farther.
    --Locke.

  3. To have intercourse or communion; especially, to hold intercourse or to communicate by sending and receiving letters; -- followed by with.

    After having been long in indirect communication with the exiled family, he [Atterbury] began to correspond directly with the Pretender.
    --Macaulay.

    Syn: To agree; fit; answer; suit; write; address.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
corresponding

1570s, past participle adjective from correspond. Not common until 19c., when it took on the adjectival function of correspondent. Related: Correspondingly (1836).

Wiktionary
corresponding

  1. that have a similar relationship n. action of the verb ''to correspond'' v

  2. (present participle of correspond English)

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WordNet
corresponding

  1. adj. accompanying; "all rights carry with them corresponding responsibilities"

  2. similar especially in position or purpose; "a number of corresponding diagonal points"

  3. conforming in every respect; "boxes with corresponding dimensions"; "the like period of the preceding year" [syn: comparable, like]

  4. agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree; "the figures are large but the corresponding totals next year will be larger" [syn: proportionate, in proportion to]

Usage examples of "corresponding".

The intensity of the response to a given beat reflects the current dominance of the beat period whose corresponding neurons are activated by that beat.

Neurons in the network would become activated and reactivated by corresponding pitch values, and their activity would decay slowly.

How about a tax to support antipollution research financed by an addition to the income tax rates based on a simple formula such as 5, corresponding to the year in the five-year tax plan?

Hence it sleeps like the terminal leaflet of a mature plant, as was observed in 15 species, and wholly unlike the corresponding leaflet of Trifolium, which simply bends upwards.

Here also there is an exceptional development of cavate lodges, and corresponding to this development an almost entire absence of cliff dwellings.

In the second Epistle of Clement and in the Shepherd the Christological interest of the writer ends in obtaining the assurance, through faith in Christ as the world ruling King and Judge that the community of Christ will receive a glory corresponding to its moral and ascetic works.

Corresponding with emigres and writing counterrevolutionary propaganda.

It is most astonishing, giving not only the literal corresponding phrase, but the spirit of the original, the true Dantesque manner.

Now Jack spoilt the beauty of the great cabin by causing Mr Gray to build the equivalent of a deep wing-transom, with the corresponding knees, massive enough to withstand the recoil of his brass ninepounders, so that by removing the stern windows as though to ship deadlights, together with some of the gingerbread-work from the gallery, he could use them as chasers, firing from a higher station than the more usual gunroom ports.

In a future chapter I shall attempt to show that the adult differs from its embryo, owing to variations supervening at a not early age, and being inherited at a corresponding age.

Most evenings she could be found beneath the glare of the small halogen lamp, entering data into her computer, scanning images of genetic mutations involving female shark moths exposed to dioxane, corresponding with other researchers in Melbourne and Kyoto, Siberia and London.

I am saying that specific experiences, themselves linguistically structured in many ways, are not captured in signifiers without a corresponding lifeworld signified.

Every plunge into her was greeted with a corresponding upward thrust of her own, her passions fermenting in a vat of desire until swiftly and frenziedly both of them erupted into orgasms of stunning intensity.

Somewhere deep within that Wall, in the Flux reality corresponding to the inside of that nebula, three deep-space Mu-Laan glassfish floated serenely, presumably pleased to have disposed of the latest intruders.

Hence he concluded them to be so many gods, of an intelligence superior to that of other existences, corresponding to the lofty height in which they moved with such perfect regularity and admirable harmony, with a movement spontaneous and free.