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.