CORRESPONDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corresponding mean? 

• CORRESPONDING (adjective)
  The adjective CORRESPONDING has 3 senses:

1. accompanying

2. similar especially in position or purpose

3. conforming in every respect

  Familiarity information: CORRESPONDING used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORRESPONDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Accompanying

Context example:

all rights carry with them corresponding responsibilities

Similar:

related; related to (being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Similar especially in position or purpose

Context example:

a number of corresponding diagonal points

Similar:

similar (marked by correspondence or resemblance)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Conforming in every respect

Synonyms:

comparable; corresponding; like

Context example:

the like period of the preceding year

Similar:

same (closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree)

 Context examples 

“We have a lot more work to do, but so far this is very promising,” said Glenn Gaudette, PhD, professor of biomedical engineering at WPI and corresponding author of the paper.

(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)

The death domain of these receptors binds to the corresponding domain of FADD, which in turn recruits the zymogen form of the death protease FLICE, activating a protease cascade which results in apoptosis.

(Fas-Associated Via Death Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

The corresponding features in the northern hemisphere had almost disappeared by 2011.

(Cassini Sees Dramatic Seasonal Changes on Titan, NASA)

"We knew already that cells need to transcribe new genes in order to recover," explained corresponding author Denise Montell, UCSB's Duggan Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology.

(Cells Back from Brink of Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But over the following decades, no one successfully detected the corresponding electrons that should be produced during the neutron decay.

(Six-decade-old space mystery solved with shoebox-sized satellite called a CubeSat, National Science Foundation)

Study participants also were given definitions of 20 little-used words and 20 easy words, and asked to produce the corresponding word.

(Exercise May Help Seniors with Word, Memory Problems, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Vaccination with multi-epitope melanoma peptide vaccine stimulates the host immune system to mount a cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response against tumor cells expressing the corresponding antigens, resulting in tumor cell lysis.

(Multi-epitope Melanoma Peptide Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

East Asian floods, African droughts and the frequent California fires may be linked to the rapid warming of the Indo-Pacific Ocean that impacts global rainfall patterns and corresponding weather, says a new study.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)

An altered form of an individual, organism, population, or genetic character that differs from the corresponding wild type due to one or more alterations (mutations).

(Mutant, NCI Thesaurus)

Everyone knows habitat loss is bad for animals, but there's been a longstanding debate about fragmentation – the arrangement of remaining habitat, said co-corresponding author Matt Betts of the OSU College of Forestry.

(Forest fragmentation hits wildlife hardest in the tropics, National Science Foundation)