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Bookmark or Share- when one thing increases, the other increases as wellHello, is there any word to describe two things that change together? I mean when one of them increases, the other increases as well, and vice versa. Like the relationship between eating food and weight, as eating increases so does weight, Thanks.
- correlate <to /with> - WordReference Forums" There, it's usually in the passive: "Annual plant growth in tons per acre is highly [or strongly] correlated with annual rainfall (r = .85) but only weakly with mean annual temperature (r = .23)."* The example in post #4 seems to be a less mathematical use of the verb "to correlate."
- correlated to or with | WordReference Forums"Correlated to" is standard, but I don't think anyone would raise an eyebrow at "correlated with," unless ...
- correlated vs interrelated - WordReference ForumsSpending is usually "correlated" with income. Frost damage is "correlated" with weather conditions. We can say that the presence of fridges in houses is correlated with the presence of televisions in the same houses, because the more likely you are to have one, the more likely you are to have the other : their occurrence is "correlated".
- correlate to / correlate with | WordReference ForumsHappiness is correlated with income. Height is correlated with weight. When using the noun correlation, the preposition between is used. Some examples: There is a strong correlation between height and weight. The correlation between happiness and income needs further testing.
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