1. Plural of correlator; devices, instruments, or systems that measure or establish the degree of correlation between two or more variables or signals.
Usage: technical; commonly used in signal processing, statistics, and astronomy
2. In astronomy and radio astronomy, specialized instruments or software components used to combine and analyze signals from multiple telescopes or antennas.
Usage: field-specific; astronomy

Examples

• The laboratory uses advanced correlators to analyze the relationship between temperature and pressure in the experiment.
• Radio telescopes rely on correlators to process signals from multiple antennas simultaneously.
• Modern correlators can handle vast amounts of data from distributed sensor networks.
• The correlators in the signal processing system detected a strong correlation between the two input streams.
• Astronomers upgraded the facility's correlators to improve the resolution of their observations.
• Digital correlators have become essential tools in statistical analysis and data science.