having a mutual relationship; corresponding 相关的;对应的 rights, whether moral or legal, can involve correlative duties. 道德权利和法律权利都会牵涉到相应的责任。 ■(Grammar)(of words such as neither and nor) corresponding to each other and regularly used together (语法)关联词(如neither和nor)
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a word or concept that has a mutual relationship with another word or concept 对应词;相关概念 the child's right to education is a correlative of the parent's duty to send the child to school. 孩子受教育的权利是和父母让孩子上学的义务相关联的。
派生 correlatively adverb correlativity noun 语源
mid 16th cent.: from medieval Latin correlativus, from cor- 'together' + late Latin relativus (see relative)