Associative

Word ASSOCIATIVE
Character 11
Hyphenation as so ci a tive
Pronunciations /əˈsoʊ.si.ə.tɪv/

Definitions and meanings of "Associative"

What do we mean by associative?

Of, characterized by, resulting from, or causing association. adjective

Independent of the grouping of elements. For example, if a + (b + c) = (a + b) + c, the operation indicated by + is associative. adjective

Pertaining to or resulting from association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite; characterized by association: as, “the associative faculty,”

In mathematics, applied to an operation which gives the same result whether it first unites two quantities A and B, and then unites the result to a third quantity C, or whether it first unites B and C, and then unites the result to A, the order of the quantities being preserved.

Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association. adjective

Pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite. adjective

Such that, for any operands , adjective

Addressable by a key more complex than an integer index adjective

Characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination adjective

Pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite.

(of a binary operator *) Such that, for any operands a, b and c, (a * b) * c = a * (b * c); (of a ring, etc.) whose multiplication operation is associative.

Addressable by a key more complex than an integer index.

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The word "associative" in example sentences

Sometimes they centered themselves in the present moment, which is called associative thinking. ❋ PhD Lucy Jo Palladino (2007)

In the rat cortex, long-term associative memories vanished rapidly after local application of an inhibitor of the protein kinase C isoform, protein kinase M zeta PKMzeta. ❋ Zoe Brain (2007)

It is as if what are sometimes called the associative fibers, both ends of which are in the brain, were dwarfed in comparison with the afferent and efferent fibers that mediate sense and motion. ❋ G. Stanley Hall (1885)

The babblings and squigglings may be pretty or ugly, may carry certain associative meanings, (I think “e” is sort of … endearingly cute as a visual figurae, in its smiley muppetyness,) but these figurae are mostly just jabber and daubings until they’re built-up into morphemes, the smallest units that can have meaning. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

If the parenthesis-free notation is tolerated in general logical exposition, this is because ˆ¨ is associative, that is, the wffs ❋ Jennings, Ray (2008)

Number one is, What were my first impressions of the idea of associative life; that is, did the idea strike me pleasantly or not? ❋ John Thomas Codman (N/A)

That reaction, called associative detachment, allowed clouds in the universe to cool, condense and form the first stars. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson would later voice strikingly similar ideas about the notion of associative "trails" between documents. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The allusive, tangential nature of Keillor's ideas, and the idea of the film as a journey, recall the associative meanderings of the author WG Sebald. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He found that to crack the game, brains use a unique set of neural pathways known as associative memory, which enables us to discover a pattern from a partial clue. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Similarly, lack of space and the need for clearness have obliged me to write as if shape-preference invariably necessitated the detailed process of ocular perception, instead of being due, as is doubtless most often the case, to every kind of associative abbreviation and equivalence of processes. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)

I call it second nature because it is worked, not by original instincts, but by a new kind of associative mechanism which must first be laboriously constructed. ❋ George Herbert Palmer (1887)

Such "associative" duplicity can only succeed in plain sight. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While Contextual Crosswalks can express any kind of associative relationship, in practice, it's best to define a limited set of types of Contextual Crosswalk in advance and apply them consistently across the Dashboard or Portal Suite. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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