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correspondence

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As a noun, correspondence means mutual communication or discourse:.

Meanings of correspondence

13 meanings

Mutual communication or discourse:
Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.
Newspaper or news stories.
Postal or other written communications.
Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc:
An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.
set theoryA relation.
theologyswedenborgianismA similarity between physical and spiritual things (e.g. light to wisdom, or warmth to love)
Compatibility of observations
“there was no agreement between theory and measurement”
“the results of two tests were in correspondence”
Similar: agreement
The relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount
Similar: commensurateness, proportionateness
(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
Similar: symmetry, symmetricalness, balance
Similarity by virtue of corresponding
Similar: parallelism