comovement

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noun

The correlated or similar movement of two or more entities.

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Meanings

nouncomovement (countable and uncountable, plural comovements)

plural comovements

  1. countableuncountableThe correlated or similar movement of two or more entities.
    1 more example

    In the other meaning of the term “real,” however—the sense from which springs the label “real business cycle,” namely, a cycle unrelated to monetary developments—the evidence adduced here for the importance of comovements between financial and real variables suggests that the cycle is not “real” at all or, at the least, not completely divorced from monetary developments.

    2005, James Hamilton, What’s Real About the Business Cycle?, in: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, July/August 2005

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Latincon-
  6. Latinco-
  7. Englishco-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  10. Proto-Italic*moweō
  11. Latinmovēre
  12. Old Frenchmovoir
  13. Old Frenchmovement
  14. Middle Englishmevement
  15. Englishmovement
  16. Englishcomovement

From co- + movement.

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APA

comovement. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comovement

MLA

“comovement.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comovement. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “comovement,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comovement.

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