Copula Definition
kŏpyə-lə
copulas
noun
copulas
Something that connects or links together.
Webster's New World
A verb, such as a form of be or seem, that identifies the predicate of a sentence with the subject.
American Heritage
The word or set of words that serves as a link between the subject and predicate of a proposition.
American Heritage
(statistics) A function that represents the association between two or more variables, independent of the individual marginal distributions of the variables.
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Other Word Forms of Copula
Noun
Singular:
copula
Plural:
copulae, copulasOrigin of Copula
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Borrowed from Latin copula (“bond, tie”). See there for details.
From Wiktionary
Latin cōpula link
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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