CO-VARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does co-vary mean? 

• CO-VARY (verb)
  The verb CO-VARY has 1 sense:

1. vary in the same time period (of two random variables)

  Familiarity information: CO-VARY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CO-VARY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they co-vary    ... he / she / it co-varies   
Past simple: co-varied   
Past participle: co-varied   
-ing form: co-varying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Vary in the same time period (of two random variables)

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "co-vary" is one way to...):

vary (be subject to change in accordance with a variable)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

Sentence frame:

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Derivation:

covariance ((statistics) the mean value of the product of the deviations of two variates from their respective means)

covariation ((statistics) correlated variation)