associativity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.69 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The condition of being associative.
noun
The property of an operator which determines how it is grouped with operators of the same precedence in the absence of parentheses.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The following table groups all of the operators with equal precendence and lists their associativity. The higher in the table, the higher precedence of execution the operator has in an expression."
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 Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English associativity From associative + -ity.