Covary

Origin

- + vary

Full definition of covary

Verb

1. (statistics) To vary together with another variable, particularly in a way that may be predictive
• July 18, 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 as well as cross-temporal relations between these profiles ...
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Related terms

• covariance
• covariate