correlating
- 1Present participle of correlate.
The analyst spent the week correlating sales figures with local weather patterns.
Correlating symptoms across hundreds of patients helped the doctors spot the outbreak early.
Note
One spelling, two jobs inherited from the two verbs inside correlate. Transitively it is something a person does: correlating one set of figures with another to bring out what they share. Intransitively the things themselves do it, as in rates correlating closely with income. The noun correlate, either member of such a pair, has no -ing form, so correlating is always the verb at work, whether as participle or as gerund.
Income levels correlating with test scores surprised no one on the panel.
With both variables correlating so tightly, the model needed only one of them.
correlating is a form of correlate
correlate, verb: To be connected with something else so that changes in one tend to go along with changes in the other. Full entry
- Forms
- correlatecorrelates he/she/itcorrelating -ing formcorrelated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- correlate → correlating: drop the e, add -ing
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