单词	associative
释义	associative adjective as·​so·​cia·​tive ə-ˈsō-shē-ˌā-tiv  -sē-, -shə-tiv  1 : of or relating to association especially of ideas or images 2 : dependent on or acquired by association or learning 3 : of, having, or being the property of combining to the same mathematical result regardless of the grouping of an expression's elements given that the order of those elements is preserved addition is associative since (a + b) + c = a + (b + c) associatively adverb associativity ə-ˌsō-shē-ə-ˈti-və-tē  -sē- -shə-ˈti- noun Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web The kind of thinking Lamb struggled to do alone was the thinking that spun together the threads of his essays and letters: conversational, allusive, associative. Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022 Mammals sleep when the neocortex — a part of the brain that processes sensory, motor, language, emotional and associative information — shuts down. Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 8 July 2022 Clark serves as an associative accountant for the county and has 20 years of experience in reviewing and planning policies in nonprofits and local government. Angelina Hicks, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2022 What’s happened is there’s now an assumption that these risk factors are causative rather than associative, says Elovitz. Katie Jennings, Forbes, 17 May 2022 And the runners with the strongest bias toward associative thoughts tended to be the most efficient, though the pattern wasn’t particularly pronounced. Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 23 Sep. 2020 Farrar, Straus & Giroux), demonstrates that, regardless of whether Handke labels a work fiction or nonfiction, his technique remains much the same—the tone discursive, the narratives eddying and associative, the point of view inward and subjective. Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022 Fraser and his colleagues saw an opportunity to get around that anatomical limitation and learn more about associative memory formation by using zebra fish. Quanta Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022 Harris’s surrealistic, cartoonish methods are as exuberant and freewheelingly associative as Douglas is—and the film’s hyperbolic absurdities reflect the unredressed absurdities of American racial politics. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2021 See More Word History First Known Use 1801, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Phrases Containing associative associative learning associative neuron associative learning associative neuron Kids Definition associative adjective as·​so·​cia·​tive ə-ˈsō-shē-ˌā-tiv  -shə-tiv : relating to or being a property of a mathematical operation (as addition or multiplication) in which the result does not depend on how the elements are grouped The associative property of addition states that (2 + 3) + 1 and 2 + (3 + 1) will both have a sum of 6. Medical Definition associative adjective as·​so·​cia·​tive ə-ˈsō-s(h)ē-ˌāt-iv  -shət-iv  1 : of or relating to association especially of ideas or images an associative symbol 2 a : dependent on or characterized by association an associative reaction b : acquired by a process of learning an associative reflex
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