Definition of "correlate" []

• To put or bring into causal, complementary, parallel, or reciprocal relation. (verb-transitive)
• To establish or demonstrate as having a correlation: correlated drug abuse and crime. (verb-transitive)
• To be related by a correlation. (verb-intransitive)
• Related by a correlation, especially having corresponding characteristics. (adjective)
• Either of two correlate entities; a correlative. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "That the graphs roughly correlate is indicative of not much of anything."
• "Dr. Stephen R. Marquardt, attempted to quantify beauty scientifically by developing the Golden Decagon Mask based on the ratio 1: 1.618 - The closervarious facialfeatures such as length of nose, position of eyes and length of chin correlate tokey points on the template, the more aesthetically pleasing the face is."
• "The team could see from the data which parts of the brain correlate to these movements."