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
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sometimes they centered themselves in the present moment, which is called associative thinking.
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Sometimes they centered themselves in the present moment, which is called associative thinking.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes they centered themselves in the present moment, which is called associative thinking.
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Sometimes they centered themselves in the present moment, which is called associative thinking.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If the parenthesis-free notation is tolerated in general logical exposition, this is because ¨ is associative, that is, the wffs
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