Associations to the word «Correlative»

Wiktionary

CORRELATIVE, adjective. Mutually related; corresponding
CORRELATIVE, noun. Either of two correlative things.
CORRELATIVE, noun. (grammar) A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbal form, in Esperanto regularly formed, indicating 'which?', 'that', 'some', 'none', and 'every', as applied to people, things, type, place, manner, reason, time, or quantity, as: kiu ‘who’ (which person?), iu ‘someone’ (some person), tie ‘there’ (that place), ĉie ‘everywhere’ (all places), etc.

Dictionary definition

CORRELATIVE, noun. Either of two or more related or complementary variables.
CORRELATIVE, adjective. Mutually related.
CORRELATIVE, adjective. Expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation; "correlative conjunctions".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope