Correspondence | Mean of correspondence in English Dictionary

/ˌkorəˈspɑːndəns/

• Noun
• the activity of writing letters or e-mails to someone
1. They communicated by telephone and correspondence.
2. E-mail correspondence has become extremely important for modern businesses.
3. The two men began a correspondence that would continue throughout their lives.
• the letters or e-mails that people write to each other
1. A book of the author's personal correspondence was published early last year.
2. A formal tone is always used in business correspondence.
3. I have a pile of correspondence [=letters from people] on my desk.
• a direct relationship to or with something or between two things
1. Note the correspondence of each number to a location on the map.
2. Sometimes there is little correspondence between the way a word is spelled and the way it is pronounced in English.
3. Sometimes there are few correspondences between spelling and pronunciation.

• the fact of being similar or equal to something
1. The degree of correspondence between the two texts is startling. [=it is startling to see how closely they resemble each other]
2. There is a close correspondence between the two texts.
3. There are many correspondences between them.