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covarying

covarying is the present participle and gerund of covary.

Meaning of covary

Verb

covary (third-person singular simple present covaries, present participle covarying, simple past and past participle covaried)

  1. To vary together with another variable, particularly in a way that may be predictive
    • More specifically, to say that there is an informative criterion of diachronic identity is to say that facts of diachronic identity covary with facts about continuants’ instantaneous qualitative profiles […].2007 July 18, Thomas Satting, “Identity in 4D”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 2, →DOI

Questions about covarying

What is covarying the present participle and gerund of?
Covarying is the present participle and gerund of covary.

Words near covarying in the dictionary

  1. covarion
  2. covarions
  3. Covarrubias
  4. Covarrubiases
  5. covary
  6. covarying
  7. Covasna
  8. Covault
  9. Covaults
  10. Covay
  11. cove

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