correspondence
Other forms: correspondences
Correspondence is a body of letters or communications. If you've ever had a pen pal or an email buddy, you’ve written plenty of correspondence.
Besides referring to that stack of love letters you've bound up with ribbon, correspondence has a couple of other meanings, too. When you and your friend hold similar opinions about a particular subject, your thoughts are in correspondence, or "agreement." In mathematics, symmetrical objects are in correspondence — that is, they mirror each other exactly.
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(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or planesynonyms: balance, symmetricalness, symmetrytypes:geometrical regularity, regularitya property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal anglesbilateral symmetry, bilateralism, bilateralitythe property of being symmetrical about a vertical planeradial symmetrythe property of symmetry about an axistype of:
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the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amountsynonyms: commensurateness, proportionatenesstype of:proportionalitya ratio of two quantities that is constant
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similarity by virtue of correspondingsynonyms: parallelismtype of:similaritythe quality of being similar
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compatibility of observations“the results of two tests were in correspondence”synonyms: agreementtypes:normalityconformity with the normtype of:compatibilitycapability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination
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communication by the exchange of letterstypes:carda rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures)get-well carda card expressing get-well wishesgreeting carda card sent to express personal greetingsmailing-card, post card, postal card, postcarda card for sending messages by post without an envelopesympathy carda card expressing sympathytype of:1st class, 1st-class mail, first class, first-class mailmail that includes letters and postcards and packages sealed against inspectionblack and white, written communication, written languagecommunication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten)
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Vocabulary lists containing correspondence
In 1960s racially segregated Jackson, Mississippi, aspiring writer Eugenia (Skeeter) Phelan interviews housemaids for a dangerous exposé on their working conditions and treatment.
On April 9, 1865, after a final battle that failed to break through Union forces, Robert E. Lee surrendered at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. As a brigadier general and secretary to Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Porter witnessed and recorded this event. In his report, Porter included detailed observations, letters between the opposing generals, and personal opinions—all of which served to emphasize the humanity of the moments leading up to and surrounding the formal ceremony that is now seen as the end of the Civil War. E-text available here.
Teenagers Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters form an intense bond when they meet in a cancer support group in Indiana.