Verb
correlate (third-person singular simple present correlates, present participle correlating, simple past and past participle correlated)
- (transitive) To compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics.
- (intransitive) To be related by a correlation; to be correlated.
1871, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture:Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 3-4:As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.