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

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(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.

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Addressable by a key more complex than an integer index.

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AWK's associative arrays may be indexed by strings.

But signs of associative memory are almost, if not entirely, wanting.

Associative play involves a group of children who have similar goals.

Multiplication may or may not be commutative, and in the same way it may or may not be associative.

Gilds were a natural manifestation of the associative spirit which is inherent in mankind.

This idea finds fuller expression in the algebra of matrices, as to which it must suffice to say that a matrix is a symbol consisting of a rectangular array of scalars, and that matrices may be combined by a rule of addition which obeys the usual laws, and a rule of multiplication which is distributive and associative, but not, in general, commutative.

Associative play begins during toddlerhood and extends though preschool age.

The particular organic conditions of perception and the associative laws to which the mind, as a part of nature, is subjected, are facts in themselves indifferent to the philosopher; and therefore the development of psychology into an independent science, which took place during the latter half of the 10th century and may now be said to be complete, represents an entirely natural evolution.

Just for explaining a little, a genetic algebra is basically an algebra in which multiplication is not associative.

There is no operator precedence and the algebra is right associative.

In the first half of the book Roland is careful to elaborate his own divergence from a traditional, purely associative dream analysis.

The latter has higher precedence and is left associative.

A set associative cache memory nothing more than several direct-mapped caches operated in parallel.

Elaborating the theme she asked ' What is the effect of a harsh critical superego on the free associative process?

The effect of these definitions is that the sum and the product of two quaternions are also quaternions; that addition is associative and commutative; and that multiplication is associative and distributive, but not commutative.

Associative play-Preschoolers play together in a similar activity with little organization or responsibility.

A pure product is associative; a mixed product, speaking generally, is not.

If, in the extensive calculus of the nth category, all the units (including i and the derived units E) are taken to be homologous instead of being distributed into species, we may regard it as a (2'-I)-tuple linear algebra, which, however, is not wholly associative.

Associative tendency, individual or inherited, has since been the favourite constructive factor of human experience in Empirical Philosophy.

Thus a(b+c) and (b+c)a give the same result, though it may be written in various ways, such as abdac, ca+ab, &c. In the same way the associative law is that A(BC) and (AB)C give the same formal result.

They are (a+b)-?-c=a+(b+c) (A) (aXb)Xc=aX(bXc) (A') a+b=b+a (c) aXb=bXa (c') a(b c) =ab-Fac (D) (a - b)+b=a (I) (a=b)Xb=a (I') These formulae express the associative and commutative laws of the operations + and X, the distributive law of X, and the definitions of the inverse symbols - and =, which are assumed to be unambiguous.

This is manifestly, when all is said, a particular psychological event, a collective fact of the associative consciousness.

Under the second head, according to Ward, as according to Wundt, knowledge is experience; we must start with the duality of subject and object, or perpetual reality, phenomenon, in the unity of experience, and not believe, as realists do, that either subject or object is distinct from this unity; moreover, experience requires " conation," because it is to interesting objects that the subject attends; conation is required for all synthesis, associative and intellective; thinking is doing; presentation, feeling, conation are one inseparable whole; and the unity of the subject is due to activity and not to a substratum.