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Concomitant vs Correlate - What's the difference?

concomitant | correlate |

As nouns the difference between concomitant and correlate

is that concomitant is something happening or existing at the same time while correlate is either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative.

As an adjective concomitant

is accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.

As a verb correlate is

to compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics.

concomitant

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.
  • * (John Locke)
    • It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure.
  • * 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 41:
    • The new technology on which super-industrialism is based, much of it blue-printed in American research laboratories, brings with it an inevitable acceleration of change in society and a concomitant speed-up of the pace of individual life as well.

    Synonyms

    * (following as a consequence) accompanying, adjoining, attendant, incidental

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something happening or existing at the same time.
  • * 1970 , , Bantam Books , pg.93:
    • The declining commitment to place is thus related not to mobility per se, but to a concomitant of mobility- the shorter duration of place relationships.
  • * 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 301:
    • It is also instructive to consider the relation of these dreams to anxiety dreams. In the dreams we have been discussing, a repressed wish has found a means of evading censorship—and the distortion which censorship involves. The invariable concomitant is that painful feelings are experienced in the dream.
  • An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.

    • Synonyms

    * (a concomitant event or situation) accompaniment, co-occurrence

    Related terms

    * concomitance * concomitantly * concomitate ----

    correlate

    English

    Verb

  • To compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics
  • To be related by a correlation
  • * Tylor
    • Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice.
  • *
    • 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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative

    • Anagrams

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