corresponding

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

adjective

1. identical in all essentials or respects:

   corresponding fingerprints.

2. similar in position, purpose, form, etc.:

   corresponding officials in two states.

3. associated in a working or other relationship:

   a bolt and its corresponding nut.

4. dealing with correspondence:

   a corresponding secretary.

5. employing the mails as a means of association:

   a corresponding member of a club.

Other Words From

• corre·sponding·ly adverb
• noncor·res·ponding adjective noun
• noncor·res·ponding·ly adverb
• uncor·re·sponding adjective
• uncor·re·sponding·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of corresponding¹

First recorded in 1570–80; correspond + -ing ²

Example Sentences

Your TV sends the audio to the soundbar, the soundbar takes a moment to unpack the signal, and sends it out after the corresponding video has reached your eyeballs.

From Popular-Science

They calculated a corresponding temperature change of at least 40 degrees.

From Quanta Magazine

Each of the three scenarios listed in the problem had a corresponding response.

From FiveThirtyEight

Paul Wright worked it out analytically, starting with streaks of 56, 57, 58, 59 or 60 games, each of which had their own corresponding probabilities of occurring.

From FiveThirtyEight

Jostling one of the bit’s atoms won’t change the overall magnetization of the bit and its corresponding value of 0 or 1.

From Science News

But it is not working with the corresponding tribes on the Syrian side of the mostly nonexistent Iraq-Syria border.

From The Daily Beast

Friends trying to contact me reported corresponding with an impostor named Krystal.

From The Daily Beast

Numbers were read off, each one corresponding to an alternate who would be seated.

From The Daily Beast

So I felt I had to carry my threat through—and we began corresponding.

From The Daily Beast

In 1988, the corresponding percentages were 51 percent and 60 percent.

From The Daily Beast

I do not think the average number of passengers on a corresponding route in our country could be so few as twenty.

From Project Gutenberg

In a dungeon of the corresponding tower, on this side of the castle, was the prison of Ripperda.

From Project Gutenberg

These granules are identical with the corresponding granules in the leukocytes just described.

From Project Gutenberg

Myelocytes are the bone-marrow cells from which the corresponding granular leukocytes are developed.

From Project Gutenberg

The federal government also has three courts corresponding somewhat to the courts established by the states.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• analogous
• comparable
• reciprocal