Hypertext Webster Gateway: "correlative"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Correlative \Cor*rel"a*tive\ (k?r-r?l"?-t?v), a. [Cf. F.
corr['e]latif.]
Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.

Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and
citizen, are correlative terms. --Hume.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Correlative \Cor*rel"a*tive\, n.
1. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation,
or is correlated, to some other person or thing. --Locke.

Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives.
--Spelman.

2. (Gram.) The antecedent of a pronoun.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

correlative
adj 1: mutually related [syn: {correlate}, {correlated}]
2: (grammar) indicating a reciprocal or complementary relation;
"correlative conjunctions"
n : either of two correlated variables [syn: {correlate}]


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