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English

Etymology

From associate +? -ive.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??so?.?i.?.t?v/, /??so?.si.?.t?v/

Adjective

associative (comparative more associative, superlative most associative)

1. Pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite.
   • 1998, Kazimierz Zieli?ski, Pairing, Continuity, Contingency - What's the Difference, Anna Neugebauer (editor), Macromolecular Interplay in Brain Associative Mechanisms: Proceedings of the International School of Biocybernetics, World Scientific, page 63,

     At present conditioning is viewed as a special case of associative learning which provides an animal (and human being alike) with die ability to discover, memorize, retrieve, and use relationships between signals and reinforcers and also to control rewards and aversive events.

2. (algebra, of a binary operator ${\displaystyle *}$) Such that, for any operands ${\displaystyle a,b}$ and ${\displaystyle c}$, ${\displaystyle (a*b)*c=a*(b*c)}$; (of a ring, etc.) whose multiplication operation is associative.
   • 2000, Freddy Van Oystaeyen, Algebraic Geometry for Associative Algebras, Marcel Dekker, page 235,

     Perhaps it is an advantage of the "associative algebraic geometry" we have tried to develop in foregoing chapters that it is independent of braidings and further generalizations because it will remain valid as long as the corresponding "function"-rings constructed in these theories are associative algebras.

   • 2006, Ibrahim Assem, Daniel Simson, Andrzej Skowro?ski, Elements of the Representation Theory of Associative Algebras, 1: Techniques of Representation Theory, Cambridge University Press, page vii,

     It is now generally accepted that the representation theory of associative algebras traces its origin to Hamilton's description of the complex numbers by pairs of real numbers.

   • 2014, Miguel Cabrera García, Ángel Rodríguez Palacios, Non-Associative Normed Algebras, Volume 1: The Vidav–Palmer and Gelfand-Naimark Theorems, Cambridge University Press, page 1,

     In this section we develop the basic theory of normed algebras, putting special emphasis on the case of complete normed unital associative complex algebras.

3. (computing) Addressable by a key more complex than an integer index.

Antonyms

• antiassociative

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• associative array

Translations

Danish

Adjective

associative

1. neuter singular of associativ

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.s?.sja.tiv/

Adjective

associative

1. feminine singular of associatif

Italian

Adjective

associative f pl

1. feminine plural of associativo

Anagrams

• associatevi

Swedish

Adjective

associative

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of associativ.

English

Etymology

From relation +? -ship.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???le??(?)n??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???le???n???p/
• Hyphenation: re?la?tion?ship

Noun

relationship (plural relationships)

1. Connection or association; the condition of being related.
2. (mathematics) The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially coordinates.
3. Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
4. A romantic or sexual involvement.
   • 1975 March 17, Marian Christy, "Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty", The Lebanon Daily News

     I'm not advocating sexual promiscuity but I think it's possible for a woman to have many kinds of sexual relationships with many men and that shouldn't affect the status of the marriage.

   • 2000, April 8, Dorthea Straus, "Oates on Marilyn: Men, drugs, tragedy", The Baltimore Sun

     Her most satisfying sexual relationship seemed to be a threesome with Charles Chaplin Jr. and Eddy Robinson Jr., the spurned sons of famous film fathers.

5. A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other
6. (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

Hyponyms

• joking relationship

Derived terms

• entity-relationship diagram
• entity-relationship model
• relationship anarchy
• relationshipless
• relationshiply
• relationshippy
• relationshopping

Translations

See also

• relate
• relation
• relative