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CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic See also:Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and See also:respond ere, to See also:answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)  , strictly a mutual agreement or fitness of parts or See also:character, that which fits or answers to a requirement in another, or more generally a similarity or parallel-ism . In the 17th and 18th centuries the word was frequently applied to relations and communications between states . It is now, outside See also:special applications, chiefly applied to the inter-See also:change of communications by See also:letter, or to the letters themselves, between private individuals, states, business houses, or from individuals to the See also:press . The " See also:doctrine of See also:correspondence or correspondences," one of the leading tenets of Swedenborgianism, is that every natural See also:object corresponds to and typifies some spiritual principle or truth, this being the only See also:key to the true See also:interpretation of Scripture . In See also:mathematics, the See also:term " correspondence " implies the existence of some relation between the members of two See also:groups of See also:objects . If each object of one See also:group corresponds to one and only one object of the second, and See also:vice versa, then a one-to-one correspondence exists between the groups . If each object of the first group corresponds to objects of the second group, and each object of the second group corresponds to a objects of the first group, then an a to 13 correspondence exists between the two groups . For examples of the application of this notion see See also:CURVE .

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