One way to picture it: two lists side by side, and you can draw a line from an item on the left to the item on the right that answers to it — same slot, same position, same size.
From the word’s history
corresponding is correspond + -ing; correspond is Latin cor- "together" + respondere "to answer", so the underlying picture is two things answering each other.
corresponding 就是 correspond 加上 -ing。而 correspond 來自拉丁文的 cor-（一起）加 respondere（回應、答覆）——字面就是「彼此互相回應」。這條線索很有用：兩件事之所以 corresponding，是因為其中一件動了、另一件就「回應」；或者你指著左邊那一項，右邊就有一項「應聲而出」。中文的「相應」「對應」剛好也保留了這個回應感。
Wiktionary, entries "corresponding" (correspond + -ing) and "correspond" (Latin cor- + respondere)
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
correspondingnoun/ˌkɔɹəˈspɑndɪŋ/
- 1
A correspondence; the situation where things correspond or match.
correspondingadj/ˌkɔɹəˈspɑndɪŋ/
- 1
that have a similar relationship
- The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.
- It cannot be accidental that within the timar system the proportion of holdings controlled by the ümera and the ordinary sipahis shifted to the benefit of the former. Whereas around 1527–8, 19% of the total income from timars had been in the hands of beylerbeyis and sancakbeyis, in the 1580s the corresponding figure was 29%.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。