correspondence

[ kawr-uh-spon-duhns, kor- ]

/ ˌkɔr əˈspɒn dəns, ˌkɒr- /

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noun

communication by exchange of letters.

a letter or letters that pass between correspondents: It will take me all day to answer this business correspondence.

Also correspondency. an instance of corresponding.

similarity or analogy.

agreement; conformity.

news, commentary, letters, etc., received from a newspaper or magazine correspondent.

Mathematics. function(def 4a).

Origin of correspondence

1375–1425; late Middle English (< Middle French) < Medieval Latin corrēspondentia. See correspondent, -ence

SYNONYMS FOR correspondence

5 accord, concord, consonance.

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OTHER WORDS FROM correspondence

non·cor·res·pond·ence, noun pre·cor·re·spond·ence, noun

Words nearby correspondence

correlative, correlative conjunction, correns, corresp., correspond, correspondence, correspondence column, correspondence course, correspondence principle, correspondence school, correspondence theory

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His correspondence, much of which survives, is that of an incisive and articulate observer.

Stonewall Jackson, VMI’s Most Embattled Professor |S. C. Gwynne |November 29, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
While Google can argue that actual employees do not read your correspondence (their robots do), Facebook can make no such claim.

How Four Upstarts Built and Crashed the Anti-Facebook |Jake Whitney |November 12, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Describing by biographers as an avid writer of letters, little of his correspondence appears available to public view.

The True Story of ‘The Elephant Man’ |Russell Saunders |November 3, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The correspondence between the two became, in effect, an alliance by stealth, waiting for events to make it safely transparent.

Blood and War: The Hard Truth About ‘Boots on the Ground’ |Clive Irving |September 22, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

When their correspondence was finally disclosed, it needed careful parsing.

Blood and War: The Hard Truth About ‘Boots on the Ground’ |Clive Irving |September 22, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
No one can doubt it who knows the situation of the two countries, still less anyone who has read the correspondence.

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents |James D. Richardson
Subsequent to the correspondence with Gowrie, in 1582, nothing further is known of these writings.

Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) |Henry Glassford Bell
Saunders seemed to have dealt in his usual methodical manner with most of the correspondence.

Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) |Various
He was not at all pleased to find Giles so flushed, and refused to hand over the correspondence.

A Coin of Edward VII |Fergus Hume
The unaltered tradition of the Palace, and the correspondence of the existing state of things with that tradition.

The Fair Maid of Perth |Sir Walter Scott

British Dictionary definitions for correspondence

correspondence

/ (ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndəns) /

noun

the act or condition of agreeing or corresponding

similarity or analogy

agreement or conformity

communication by the exchange of letters
the letters so exchanged

Medical definitions for correspondence

correspondence

[ kôr′ĭ-spŏn′dəns ]

n.

A relationship between corresponding points on each retina such that stimulation produces a single image.

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