Correspondence
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Correspondence may refer to:
- In general usage, non-concurrent, remote communicationCommunicationCommunication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...
between people, including letters, emailEmailElectronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
, newsgroups, Internet forums, blogs - Correspondence theory of truthCorrespondence theory of truthThe correspondence theory of truth states that the truth or falsity of a statement is determined only by how it relates to the world, and whether it accurately describes that world...
(philosophy), a theory in epistemology - Correspondence principleCorrespondence principleIn physics, the correspondence principle states that the behavior of systems described by the theory of quantum mechanics reproduces classical physics in the limit of large quantum numbers....
(physics), that theories must agree with experimental evidence - Correspondence (theology)Correspondence (theology)In theology, correspondence is the relationship between spiritual and natural realities, or between mental and physical realities.- Correspondence and esotericism :Pierre A...
, the relationship between spiritual and physical realities - Correspondence (mathematics)Correspondence (mathematics)In mathematics and mathematical economics, correspondence is a term with several related but not identical meanings.* In general mathematics, correspondence is an alternative term for a relation between two sets...
, several related meanings - Correspondence analysisCorrespondence analysisCorrespondence analysis is a multivariate statistical technique proposed by Hirschfeld and later developed by Jean-Paul Benzécri. It is conceptually similar to principal component analysis, but applies to categorical rather than continuous data...
, a multivariate statistical technique - Correspondence problemCorrespondence problemThe correspondence problem tries to figure out which parts of an image correspond to which parts of another image, after the camera has moved, time has elapsed, and/or the objects have moved around.-Overview:...
(computer vision), finding depth information in stereography - Regular sound correspondence (linguistics), see Comparative methodComparative methodIn linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with common descent from a shared ancestor, as opposed to the method of internal reconstruction, which analyzes the internal...
- Correspondence rulesCorrespondence rulesIn quantum mechanics, correspondence rules refers to the principle of replacing physical quantities with operators.Such replacements include energy and momentum, which can be derived informally from taking the time and space derivities of the plane wave function. These show a similarity to the...
(quantum mechanics) - Correspondence chessCorrespondence chessCorrespondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, usually through a correspondence chess server, through email or by the postal system; less common methods which have been employed include fax and homing pigeon...
played between different geographical locations - Correspondence course, a distant education method
- Correspondence (album), a 1983 studio album by singer and musician Peter Godwin