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Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.
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- n. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.
- n. The letters which pass between correspondents.
- n. Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.
- n. communication by the exchange of letters
- n. compatibility of observations
- n. the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount
- n. (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
- n. similarity by virtue of corresponding
- 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. Macualay. 2. The letters which pass between correspondents. 3. Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.
- n:100 n. communication by the exchange of letters