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What is a copula?

What is a copula? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (linguistics) 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.
  2. (statistics) A function that represents the association between two or more variables, independent of the individual marginal distributions of the variables.
  3. (music) A device that connects two or more keyboards of an organ.
  4. (biology) The act of copulation; mating.
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Dr Joyce thinks they mated at the lake's surface, and then dived in copula to the lake-bed to avoid disturbance.
Lady arachnids have a well-deserved reputation for polishing off their suitors, post copula, in a manner that Hannibal Lecter might have admired.
The sacred copula is performed in the spring during the month of May, the month of flowers.
A few classical copula models will then be described, along with their properties.
Each proposition consists of two terms, the subject and its predicate, united by the copula.
It contains a copula, that is, when joined to the correct number of arguments it produces an assertion.

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