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associative
CIDE DICTIONARY
associative, a.
Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. Hugh Miller. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
associative, adj.
1 of or involving association.
2 Math. & Computing involving the condition that a group of quantities connected by operators (see OPERATOR 4) gives the same result whatever their grouping, as long as their order remains the same, e.g. (a x b) x c = a x (b x c).
1 of or involving association.
2 Math. & Computing involving the condition that a group of quantities connected by operators (see OPERATOR 4) gives the same result whatever their grouping, as long as their order remains the same, e.g. (a x b) x c = a x (b x c).
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