[syn: parallelism, correspondence]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Correspondence \Cor`re*spond"ence\ (-sp?nd"ens), n. [Cf. F.
correspondance.]
1. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities;
especially, intercourse between persons by means of
letters.
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Holding also good correspondence with the other
great men in the state. --Bacon.
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To facilitate correspondence between one part of
London and another, was not originally one of the
objects of the post office. --Macaulay.
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2. The letters which pass between correspondents.
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3. Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to
another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
correspondence
n 1: communication by the exchange of letters
2: compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement
between theory and measurement"; "the results of two tests
were in correspondence" [syn: agreement, correspondence]
3: the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount
[syn: commensurateness, correspondence,
proportionateness]
4: (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact
reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or
plane [syn: symmetry, symmetricalness, correspondence,
balance] [ant: asymmetry, dissymmetry, imbalance]
5: similarity by virtue of corresponding [syn: parallelism,
correspondence]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
293 Moby Thesaurus words for "correspondence":
ESP, PP, RD, RFD, accommodation, accompaniment, accord, accordance,
account, acquiescence, adaptation, adaption, adjustment, affinity,
agape, agreement, airmail, alikeness, alliance, amity, analogy,
annals, answer, aping, approach, approximation, assent,
assimilation, association, balance, bilateral symmetry,
bonds of harmony, book post, brotherly love, cahoots, calm,
caritas, catalog, cement of friendship, charity, chorus, chronicle,
closeness, co-working, coaction, coequality, coextension,
coherence, coincidence, collaboration, collectivity, collusion,
combination, combined effort, commerce, communication, communion,
community, community of interests, comparability, comparison,
compatibility, compliance, concert, concerted action, concomitance,
concord, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confluence,
conformance, conformation, conformation other-direction,
conformity, congeniality, congress, congruence, congruency,
congruity, conjunction, connection, consilience, consistency,
consonance, consort, conspiracy, constancy, contact, continuity,
conventionality, conversation, converse, cooperation, copying,
corelation, correlation, correlativism, correlativity, dealing,
dealings, direct mail, direct-mail selling, documentation,
dynamic symmetry, empathy, equability, equality, equanimity,
equation, equilibrium, equipoise, equipollence, equiponderance,
equity, equivalence, equivalency, esprit, esprit de corps,
eurythmics, eurythmy, evenness, exchange, express,
feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, finish,
flexibility, fourth-class mail, frank, frictionlessness,
good vibes, good vibrations, halfpenny post, happy family, harmony,
history, homogeneity, homoousia, identity, imitation,
indistinguishability, information, interaction, interchange,
intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, interplay,
intersection, inventory, inverse proportion, inverse ratio,
inverse relationship, junction, junk mail, justice, keeping,
kinship, letter post, letters, levelness, like-mindedness,
likeness, likening, line, linguistic intercourse, list, love, mail,
mail-order selling, mailing list, malleability, memorial, message,
mimicking, monolithism, multilateral symmetry, mutuality, nearness,
newspaper post, no difference, obedience, observance, oneness,
orthodoxy, overlap, par, parallelism, parasitism, parcel post,
parity, peace, persistence, pipe roll, pliancy, poise, polarity,
post, post day, proportion, proportionality, rapport,
rapprochement, reciprocality, reciprocation, reciprocity,
reconcilement, reconciliation, record, recording, register,
registered mail, registry, regularity, relativity, relic, remains,
reply, resemblance, response, roll, rolls, roster, rota,
rural delivery, rural free delivery, sameness, saprophytism,
scroll, sea mail, seapost, self-consistency, self-identity,
selfhood, selfness, selfsameness, semblance, shapeliness, sharing,
similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, simultaneity,
social intercourse, solidarity, speaking, special delivery,
special handling, speech, speech circuit, speech situation,
stability, steadfastness, steadiness, strictness, surface mail,
symbiosis, symmetricalness, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, sync,
synchronism, synergy, synonymity, synonymousness, synonymy, table,
talking, tally, team spirit, telepathy, timing, token, touch,
trace, traditionalism, traffic, trilateral symmetry, truck,
two-way communication, understanding, uniformity, union, unison,
unisonance, united action, unity, unruffledness, vestige
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
CORRESPONDENCE. The letters written by one to another, and the answers
thereto, make what is called the correspondence of the parties.
2. In general, the correspondence of the parties contains the best
evidence of the facts to which it relates. See Letter, contracts; Proposal.
3. When an offer to contract is made by letter, it must be accepted
unconditionally for if the precise terms are changed, even in the slightest
degree, there is no contract. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 904. See, as to the power of
revoking an offer made by letter, 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 933.