Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, characterized by, resulting from, or causing association.
- adjective Mathematics Independent of the grouping of elements. For example, if a + (b + c) = (a + b) + c, the operation indicated by + is associative.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by
association ; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite. - adjective algebra such that, for any
operands , - adjective computing addressable by a key more complex than an integer index
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
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Examples
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Sometimes they centered themselves in the present moment, which is called associative thinking.
Find Your Focus Zone PhD Lucy Jo Palladino 2007
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Sometimes they centered themselves in the present moment, which is called associative thinking.
Find Your Focus Zone PhD Lucy Jo Palladino 2007
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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.
Archive 2007-08-01 Zoe Brain 2007
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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.
I'd Forgotten to Post about this one Zoe Brain 2007
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Sometimes they centered themselves in the present moment, which is called associative thinking.
Find Your Focus Zone PhD Lucy Jo Palladino 2007
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Sometimes they centered themselves in the present moment, which is called associative thinking.
Find Your Focus Zone PhD Lucy Jo Palladino 2007
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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.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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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.
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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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.
Notes on Notes Hal Duncan 2009
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If the parenthesis-free notation is tolerated in general logical exposition, this is because ¨ is associative, that is, the wffs
Disjunction Jennings, Ray 2008
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