Equalizing and Corresponding

verb

• Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics.
  • usage: "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"
  • synonyms: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree
• Be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics.
  • synonyms: equate, correspond
• Exchange messages.
  • usage: "My Russian pen pal and I have been corresponding for several years"
  • synonyms: correspond
• Take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to.
  • usage: "Because of the sound changes in the course of history, an 'h' in Greek stands for an 's' in Latin"
  • synonyms: represent, stand for, correspond

adjective

• Accompanying.
  • usage: "all rights carry with them corresponding responsibilities"
• Similar especially in position or purpose.
  • usage: "a number of corresponding diagonal points"
• Conforming in every respect.
  • usage: "boxes with corresponding dimensions"; "the like period of the preceding year"
  • synonyms: comparable, like

• (a.) Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers.
• (a.) Carrying on intercourse by letters.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Correspond.