assortative
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.65 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Assortative interactions can generate highly nonrandom variation among groups."
- "We don’t date the girl next door; we date the girl who has been served up by an assortative algorithm."
- "In an assortative network, highly connected individuals are linked mostly to other highly connected people. This results in an outbreak that spreads quickly through these clusters of high-risk individuals, but struggles to reach the other, less connected, parts of the network."
Etymology
Etymology tree English assort Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English -ative English assortative From assort + -ative.