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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Correspondence \Cor're*spond"ence\ (-sp?nd"ens), noun [Cf. F. correspondance.]
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. --Macaulay.
2. The letters which pass between correspondents.
3. Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
correspondence
noun
1: communication by the exchange of letters
2: compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement between theory and measurement"; "the results of two tests were in correspondence" [syn: {agreement}]
3: the relation of correspondence in degree or size or amount [syn: {commensurateness}, {proportionateness}]
4: a function such that for every element of one set there is a unique element of another set [syn: {mapping}, {map}]
5: communication by exchange of letters
6: (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact correspondence of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane [syn: {symmetry}, {symmetricalness}, {balance}] [ant: {asymmetry}]
7: similarity by virtue of correspondence [syn: {parallelism}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
293 Moby Thesaurus words for "correspondence": ESP, PP, RD, RFD, accommodation, accompaniment, accord, accordance, account, acquiescence, adaptation, adaption, adjustment, affinity, agape, agreement, airmail, alikeness, alliance, amity, analogy, annals, answer, aping, approach, approximation, assent, assimilation, association, balance, bilateral symmetry, bonds of harmony, book post, brotherly love, cahoots, calm, caritas, catalog, cement of friendship, charity, chorus, chronicle, closeness, co-working, coaction, coequality, coextension, coherence, coincidence, collaboration, collectivity, collusion, combination, combined effort, commerce, communication, communion, community, community of interests, comparability, comparison, compatibility, compliance, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concord, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conformance, conformation, conformation other-direction, conformity, congeniality, congress, congruence, congruency, congruity, conjunction, connection, consilience, consistency, consonance, consort, conspiracy, constancy, contact, continuity, conventionality, conversation, converse, cooperation, copying, corelation, correlation, correlativism, correlativity, dealing, dealings, direct mail, direct-mail selling, documentation, dynamic symmetry, empathy, equability, equality, equanimity, equation, equilibrium, equipoise, equipollence, equiponderance, equity, equivalence, equivalency, esprit, esprit de corps, eurythmics, eurythmy, evenness, exchange, express, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, finish, flexibility, fourth-class mail, frank, frictionlessness, good vibes, good vibrations, halfpenny post, happy family, harmony, history, homogeneity, homoousia, identity, imitation, indistinguishability, information, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, interplay, intersection, inventory, inverse proportion, inverse ratio, inverse relationship, junction, junk mail, justice, keeping, kinship, letter post, letters, levelness, like-mindedness, likeness, likening, line, linguistic intercourse, list, love, mail, mail-order selling, mailing list, malleability, memorial, message, mimicking, monolithism, multilateral symmetry, mutuality, nearness, newspaper post, no difference, obedience, observance, oneness, orthodoxy, overlap, par, parallelism, parasitism, parcel post, parity, peace, persistence, pipe roll, pliancy, poise, polarity, post, post day, proportion, proportionality, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocality, reciprocation, reciprocity, reconcilement, reconciliation, record, recording, register, registered mail, registry, regularity, relativity, relic, remains, reply, resemblance, response, roll, rolls, roster, rota, rural delivery, rural free delivery, sameness, saprophytism, scroll, sea mail, seapost, self-consistency, self-identity, selfhood, selfness, selfsameness, semblance, shapeliness, sharing, similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, simultaneity, social intercourse, solidarity, speaking, special delivery, special handling, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, stability, steadfastness, steadiness, strictness, surface mail, symbiosis, symmetricalness, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, sync, synchronism, synergy, synonymity, synonymousness, synonymy, table, talking, tally, team spirit, telepathy, timing, token, touch, trace, traditionalism, traffic, trilateral symmetry, truck, two-way communication, understanding, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, united action, unity, unruffledness, vestige
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