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- A has a bearing on B.
- B has a bearing on A.
Now I want to say the above 2 sentences in the following single sentence:
A and B are ------ .
I thought about words such as "interrelated" or "interconnected", but they are basically about "relation" or "connection", while "bearing" has a nuance of "affecting" or "influencing".
One such word implying "both having an influence on each other" is correlated.
A and B are correlated .
Collins:
past participle correlated
1. [verb] If one thing correlates with another, there is a close similarity or connection between them, often because one thing causes the other. You can also say that two things correlate.
At the highest executive levels, earnings and performance aren't always correlated.
COBUILD Advanced English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
ODO:
correlate
VERB [NO OBJECT]
1 Have a mutual relationship or connection, in which one thing affects or depends on another.‘the study found that success in the educational system correlates highly with class’
meta: Off the top of my head (and looking at it from the other perspective), for the time being:
interdependent (ODOL)
‘In addition, there are some interdependent relationships between flower and pollinator sizes.’
(https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/interdependent)
That is, each influences the other; each is a factor for the other.
Note that dependence need not mean one cannot exist without the other but that one is influenced/ affected by the other.
