symbatic

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adjective

Of or pertaining to a relationship between two related variables where increases or decreases in the value of one also occur in the other.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivesymbatic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or pertaining to a relationship between two related variables where increases or decreases in the value of one also occur in the other.

    To use an expression recently introduced in physics, meaning “conformably growing"; “in direct proportion” would be a special instance of a symbatic relationship.

    1932, Dorian Feigenbaum, “Note on the Theory of Libidinal Types”, in The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, volume 1, numbers 3–4, →DOI, pages 543–544
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