a mutual relationship or connection between two or more things 联系;关联;相互关系 research showed a clear correlation between recession and levels of property crime. 研究显示经济衰退与财产犯罪数量有明显联系。 ■[mass noun](Statistics)interdependence of variable quantities (统计)(数量的)相关 ■(Statistics)a quantity measuring the extent of such interdependence (统计)相关数 ■[mass noun]the process of establishing a relationship or connection between two or more things 建立联系;建立关系
派生 correlational adjective 语源
mid 16th cent.: from medieval Latin correlatio(n-), from cor- 'together' + relatio (see relation)