Hypertext Webster Gateway: "correspondence"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
Holding also good correspondence with the other
great men in the state. --Bacon.
To facilitate correspondence between one part of
London and another, was not originally one of the
objects of the post office. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
3: the relation of correspondence in degree or size or amount
[syn: {commensurateness}, {proportionateness}]
4: a function such that for every element of one set there is a
unique element of another set [syn: {mapping}, {map}]
5: communication by exchange of letters
6: (mathematics) an attribute of a shape; exact correspondence
of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
[syn: {symmetry}, {symmetricalness}, {balance}] [ant: {asymmetry}]
7: similarity by virtue of correspondence [syn: {parallelism}]
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