1. That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies
are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct. Burke.
2. Limitation; restriction. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.
Correctly
(Cor*rect"ly) adv. In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
Correctness
(Cor*rect"ness), n. The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or
of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy.
Syn. Accuracy; exactness; precision; propriety.
Corrector
(Cor*rect"or) n. [L.] One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector
of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids.
Correctory
(Cor*rect"o*ry) a. Containing or making correction; corrective.
Correctress
(Cor*rect"ress) n. A woman who corrects.
Corregidor
(||Cor*reg"i*dor) n. [Sp., orig., a corrector.] The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.
Correi
(Cor"rei) n. [Scot., perh. fr. Celt. cor a corner.] A hollow in the side of a hill, where game
usually lies. "Fleet foot on the correi." Sir W. Scott.
Correlatable
(Cor`re*lat"a*ble) a. Such as can be correlated; as, correlatable phenomena.
Correlate
(Cor`re*late") (kor`re*lat" or kor"re*lat`), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Correlated; p. pr. & vb. n. Correlating.]
[Pref. cor- + relate.] To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related.
Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice.
Tylor.
Correlate
(Cor`re*late"), v. t. To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of
a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomena. Darwin.
Correlate
(Cor"re*late) n. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as
father to son; a correlative. South.
Correlation
(Cor`re*la"tion) n. [LL. correlatio; L. cor- + relatio: cf. F. corrélation. Cf. Correlation.] Reciprocal
relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of
giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases.
Correlation of energy, the relation to one another of different forms of energy; usually having some
reference to the principle of conservation of energy. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation.
Correlation of forces, the relation between the forces which matter, endowed with various forms of
energy, may exert.
Correlative
(Cor*rel"a*tive) a. [Cf. F. corrélatif.] Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.
Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms.
Hume.
Correlative
(Cor*rel"a*tive), n.
1. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing.
Locke.
Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives.
Spelman.