|kȯrə|spänd, |kär- intransitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: Middle French or Medieval Latin; Middle French correspondre, from Medieval Latin correspondēre, from Latin com- + respondēre — more at respond
1.
a. : to be in conformity or agreement : suit , agree
incomes do not always correspond with the efforts or skill that appear to be involved — J.A.Hobson
: match or compare closely
the man whose consciousness does not correspond to that of the majority is a madman — G.B.Shaw
the numbers of the paragraphs correspond with numbers on the map
b. : to be equivalent
government budgets, in their final form … correspond to “intention surveys” of expenditure — G.W.Mitchell
: be parallel : be the counterpart
the English parish may be said to correspond closely to the French rural commune — G.M.Harris
2.
a. obsolete : to have communication, communion, or intercourse with persons or affairs
b. : to communicate with a person by exchange of letters
corresponded regularly with friends
3. archaic : to make a return : respond
Matilda might not correspond to his passion — Horace Walpole
4. : to be connected by means of a geometrical transformation or by means of a functional relation (as of the values x = 2 and y = 1/2 in the relation y =1/x
Synonyms: see agree