corresponds

Verb

correspond (third-person singular simple present corresponds, present participle corresponding, simple past and past participle corresponded)

1. (intransitive, constructed with to) To be equivalent or similar in character, quantity, quality, origin, structure, function etc.
   • Coordinate term: equate
2. (intransitive, constructed with with) To exchange messages, especially by postal letter, over a period of time.
   • I've been corresponding with my German pen pal for three years.
3. (obsolete) To have sex with.
   • He pleaded guilty to the charge, so far as acknowledging that he had corresponded with other women lately, in order to get the better of his affection for me, but the experiment had failed, and he found that he should be for ever miserable.1751, Tobias Smollett, chapter 88, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, volume III