correspondence
nounUK /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dəns/ · US /ˌkoɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dəns/
Etymology From Middle English correspondence, from Latin correspondentia. By surface analysis, correspond + -ence.
7 senses
› Mutual communication or discourse:
1
Obsolete Friendly discussion.
2
Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.
3
Newspaper or news stories.
4
Postal or other written communications.
- I'm doing time in Oklahoma and really would appreciate some correspondence.1985 April 13, Michael Harmon, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
› Congruity or similarity between different…
5
An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.
6
Mathematics, Sciences, Set theory A relation.
- Synonyms
- correspondency
- Derived terms
- correspondence chess, correspondence course, correspondence principle, Curry-Howard correspondence, grapheme-phoneme correspondence, incorrespondence, law of correspondence, lexical correspondence, noncorrespondence, Robinson-Schensted correspondence, tapespondence
- Related terms
- correspondent