noun🔗Share(grammar) A word, usually a verb, used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (usually a subject complement or an adverbial), that unites or associates the subject with the predicate."In the sentence "The sky is blue," the word "is" functions as a copula, linking the subject "sky" to the predicate "blue." "grammarlinguisticslanguagewordChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA function that represents the association between two or more variables, independent of the individual marginal distributions of the variables."The copula allowed researchers to model the relationship between students' test scores in math and science, even when the score distributions for each subject were different. "statisticsmathChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA device that connects two or more keyboards of an organ."The organist used the copula to play the melody on the higher keyboard while simultaneously providing a bass line on the lower one. "organmusicdevicemachineChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe act of copulation; mating."The zookeepers carefully monitored the penguins' behavior, hoping to observe a successful copula that breeding season. "biologysexanimalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
