associative

Adjective

• characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
  • "associative learning"

Adj

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

Examples

• Associative memories were once given considerable attention.
• AWK's associative arrays may be indexed by strings.

Synonyms

associatory

Antonyms

nonassociative, antiassociative

Related Words

associative array