verb
- past tense and past participle of covary; to vary together or in relation to each other
Usage: technical; statistics and mathematics
Examples
- The two variables covaried significantly in the study.
- As temperature increased, humidity covaried in a predictable pattern.
- The researchers found that income and education covaried across the sample.
- In the analysis, test scores covaried with hours of study.
- The dependent variables covaried with changes in the independent variable.