correspondingly

Think of the toddler's classic hammer-and-bench toy, with square, circular, triangular and star-shaped wooden pegs that can each only fit in the correspondingly shaped hole in the bench.

My head is large — I have a difficult time finding hats that fit — and my ears are correspondingly oversized, so large that a dreaded childhood taunt bullies used to hurl at me was “Ears!”

The increase in fours and sixes has correspondingly boosted team totals.

In this case, however, viruses are an order of magnitude smaller than bacteria so the needles must be correspondingly smaller if they are to have any effect on them.

The underlying theory: If only small quantities of phosphorus are available in a lake, phytoplankton growth is correspondingly limited.