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noun
an·ti·cor·re·la·tion
¦an-ˌtī-ˌkȯr-ə-¦lā-shən
-ˌkär-,
¦an-tē-
plural anticorrelations
anticorrelate
verb, transitive + intransitive
anticorrelated; anticorrelating; anticorrelates
Many-sided cells are expected to be larger than fewer-sided cells, both based on experimental observation and based on statistical inference. … By anticorrelating the many-sided and the few-sided cells, the tissue reduces the frequency at which multiple large cells are crowded together, or at which multiple small cells are stretched to remain neighbors.
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William T. Gibson and Matthew C. Gibson, in Tissue Remodeling and Epithelial Morphogenesis, 2009
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