covary

English

Etymology

co- + vary

Verb

covary (third-person singular simple present covaries, present participle covarying, simple past and past participle covaried)

  1. (statistics) To vary together with another variable, particularly in a way that may be predictive
    • 2019 July 18, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 140, number 2, DOI:10.1007/s11098-007-9136-6:
      More specifically, to say that there is an informative criterion of diachronic identity is to say that facts of diachronic identity covary with facts about continuants’ instantaneous qualitative profiles [] .

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