correspondence

n 1: communication by the exchange of letters

2: compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement

between theory and measurment"; "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}]