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Noun: correspondence  ,kor-u'spón-dun(t)s or ,kór-i'spón-dun(t)s [N. Amer], ,kó-ri'spón-dun(t)s [Brit]
  1. Communication by the exchange of messages (letters, e-mails, etc.)
     
  2. Compatibility of observations
    "the results of two tests were in correspondence";
    - agreement
     
  3. The relation of corresponding in degree, size or amount
    - commensurateness, proportionateness
     
  4. (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
    - symmetry, symmetricalness, balance
     
  5. Similarity by virtue of corresponding
    - parallelism

Sounds like: correspondents

Derived forms: correspondences

Type of: 1st class, 1st-class mail, black and white, compatibility, first class, first-class mail, proportionality, similarity, spatial property, spatiality, written communication, written language

Encyclopedia: Correspondence