correlated
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Mutually related: Describes two or more things that have a connection or association with each other, such that when one changes, the other tends to change in a predictable way. This relationship is often statistical or measurable.
Usage
- The word "correlated" is primarily used as an adjective to describe a relationship between variables, factors, or events. It indicates a connection but does not necessarily imply that one causes the other.
- It is commonly used in academic, scientific, and statistical contexts.
Examples
- Adjective:
- Studies have shown that smoking and lung cancer are highly correlated.
- The researchers found that income and education level were positively correlated.
- There is no correlated evidence to support that claim.
Advanced Usage
- "to be correlated with/to": This is the standard prepositional structure used with the adjective.
- Economic growth is often correlated with increased energy consumption.
- Happiness levels are strongly correlated to a sense of community.
Variants and Related Words
- Correlate (verb): To have a mutual relationship or connection.
- Stress levels often correlate with workload.
- Correlation (noun): The process or result of correlating; a mutual relationship.
- Scientists are studying the correlation between diet and heart disease.
- Correlative (adjective & noun): Having a mutual relationship; a thing that is correlated with another.
- Rights and duties are correlative concepts.
Synonyms
- Associated: Connected with something else.
- Interrelated: Mutually related.
- Connected: Linked or joined.
- Corresponding: Having a close similarity, link, or equivalence.
Antonyms
- Unrelated: Having no connection.
- Independent: Not connected or affected by another.
- Uncorrelated: Lacking a mutual relationship or correlation.
Related Phrases
- Positively correlated: When one variable increases, the other also tends to increase.
- Exercise and fitness are positively correlated.
- Negatively correlated: When one variable increases, the other tends to decrease.
- The amount of sleep and error rate are often negatively correlated.
- Spurious correlation: An apparent association between variables that is actually caused by a third, unseen factor.
- The spurious correlation between ice cream sales and drowning incidents is explained by hot weather.
Adjective
- mutually related