a fact or an idea that is closely related to or depends on another fact or idea 紧密相关;相互关联 The child’s right to education is a correlative of the parent’s duty to send the child to school. 孩子受教育的权利是和父母让孩子上学的义务相关联的。
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from medieval Latin correlativus, from cor- ‘together’ + late Latin relativus, from referre ‘bring back’, from re- ‘back’ + ferre ‘bring’.