Meaning & use

correlating

verb·Academic

Showing or establishing a mutual relationship between two or more things, so changes in one relate to changes in another.

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The scientists spent months correlating rainfall data with changes in crop yields.

Analysts are correlating customer complaints with delays in the shipping process.

A note on using this word

The related noun is correlation; correlating two things does not by itself prove that one causes the other.

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