associative
/əˈsoʊ.ʃi.ə.tɪv/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.78 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite.
adj
Such that, for any operands a,b and c, (a*b)*c=a*(b*c); (of a ring, etc.) whose multiplication operation is associative.
adj
Addressable by a key more complex than an integer index.
Example Sentences
- "At present conditioning is viewed as a special case of associative learning which provides an animal (and human being alike) with die ability to discover, memorize, retrieve, and use relationships between signals and reinforcers and also to control rewards and aversive events."
- "Sometimes the attempt was made to reduce the inner to the outer world (Condillac, Mach, Avenarius, materialism); sometimes the outer to the inner world (Descartes, Berkeley, Fichte); sometimes the sphere of the absolute to the others (e.g., by trying to infer causally the essence and existence of something divine in general); […]; sometimes one's own body to a merely associative coordination of the self-perception of the own self and organ sensations with the own body as perceived from outside."
- "Perhaps it is an advantage of the "associative algebraic geometry" we have tried to develop in foregoing chapters that it is independent of braidings and further generalizations because it will remain valid as long as the corresponding "function"-rings constructed in these theories are associative algebras."
- "It is now generally accepted that the representation theory of associative algebras traces its origin to Hamilton's description of the complex numbers by pairs of real numbers."
- "In this section we develop the basic theory of normed algebras, putting special emphasis on the case of complete normed unital associative complex algebras."
- "The associativity of OR and AND is not at all obvious. It is tempting to assume that because OR and AND are commutative that they must be associative also. This is not the case, however, and some commutative Boolean operators are not associative. Examples include NAND and NOR."
Etymology
Etymology tree English associate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English associative From associate + -ive.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈsoʊ.ʃi.ə.tɪv/
Inflected Forms
more associative (comparative)
most associative (superlative)
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Antonyms
antiassociative