"correlation function" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: correlation functions [plural]
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  1. (mathematics) function giving the statistical correlation between random variables at two different points in space or time Categories (topical): Functions, Mathematics Hypernyms: function Hyponyms: autocorrelation function, cross-correlation function
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