correlative

UK: /kɒˈrɛlətɪv/ US: (kə rel′ə tiv)

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cor•rel•a•tive  (kə rel′ə tiv), adj. 

1. so related that each implies or complements the other.
2. being in correlation;
   mutually related.
3. British Terms, Grammar [Gram.] answering to or complementing one another and regularly used in association, as either and or, not only and but.
4. Biology (of a typical structure of an organism) found in correlation with another.

n. 

5. either of two things, as two terms, that are correlative.
6. Grammar, British Terms a correlative expression.

Also,[esp. Brit.,] corelative. 

• Medieval Latin correlātīvus. See cor-, relative
• 1520–30

cor•rel′a•tive•ly, adv. 
cor•rel′a•tive•ness, cor•rel′a•tiv′i•ty, n. 

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correlative / kɒˈrɛlətɪv/ adjective

1. in mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relationship; corresponding
2. denoting words, usually conjunctions, occurring together though not adjacently in certain grammatical constructions, as for example neither and nor in such sentences as he neither ate nor drank

noun

1. either of two things that are correlative
2. a correlative word

corˈrelatively adverb

corˈrelativeness, corˌrelaˈtivity noun