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▪ I. correˈsponding, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. correspond.
1673O. Walker Education 201 What ever good we do is a corresponding to, and as it were an assisting him.
▪ II. corresponding, ppl. a.|kɒrɪˈspɒndɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2. Not common before the 19th century; then superseding correspondent.]
1. a. That corresponds or answers to another; correspondent.
1579Digges Stratiot. ii. v. 40 Which Deducted from the corresponding parte of the Divisible leaueth o. 1683Soame & Dryden tr. Boileau's Art of Poetry 1, Differing parts have corresponding grace. 1797–1804T. Bewick Brit. Birds (1847) I. 215 An obtuse angle in the lower mandible..a corresponding angle in the upper one. 1840Lardner Geom. 127 The triangles are..similar; therefore their corresponding sides are proportional. 1874Green Short. Hist. viii. 481 His reserve..was met by a corresponding caution.
b. corresponding points, any pair of points (one on each retina) which give rise to a single visual impression of an object whose image falls upon them.
1841[see identical point]. 1879Encycl. Brit. VIII. 828/1 If,..by means of a stereoscope, or by holding a card between the two eyes, and causing a slight convergence of the eyes, the two images are brought upon corresponding points of the two retinæ, the image will at once be seen in relief. 1963G. L. Walls Vertebr. Eye x. 317 The two images of any object-point must fall upon ‘corresponding points’ of the two retinæ if they are to be fused.
2. That corresponds by letters.
corresponding member of a society: one residing at a distance, who corresponds with the society by letters, but has no deliberative voice in its affairs.
1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) II. 373 The royal academy of sciences..were pleased to express their esteem..by admitting him a corresponding member. 1780Cowper Progr. Err. 311 Corresponding misses fill the ream With sentimental frippery. 1872Stanley Lect. Ch. Scot. Title-p., Corresponding member of the Institute of France. |