Meaning & use
associative
Relating to or involving mental or mathematical association between ideas or elements.
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Addition is associative, meaning the grouping of numbers does not change the sum.
The test measured associative memory, or how well subjects linked unrelated words together.
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In math, describes a property where regrouping terms with the same operation gives the same result, as in (a+b)+c = a+(b+c).
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