different between harmonic vs associative

English

Alternative forms

• harmonick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (harmonikós), from ??????? (harmonía, “harmony”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??(?)?m?n?k/
• Rhymes: -?n?k

Adjective

harmonic (comparative more harmonic, superlative most harmonic)

1. pertaining to harmony
2. pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious
3. (mathematics) used to characterize various mathematical entities or relationships supposed to bear some resemblance to musical consonance

4. recurring periodically
5. (phonology) Exhibiting or applying constraints on what vowels (e.g. front/back vowels only) may be found near each other and sometimes in the entire word.
6. (Australianist linguistics) Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.
   • 1966, Kenneth Hale, Kinship Reflections in Syntax: Some Australian languages

     A person is harmonic with respect to members of his own generation and with respect to members of all even-numbered generations counting away from his own (e.g., his grandparents' generation, his grandchildren's generation, etc.).

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

harmonic (plural harmonics)

1. (physics) A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
2. (music) The place where, on a bowed string instrument, a note in the harmonic series of a particular string can be played without the fundamental present.
3. (mathematics) One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly spherical mass due to its attraction.
4. (CB radio slang) One's child.
   • 1967, CQ: the Radio Amateur's Journal (volume 23, issues 7-12, page 140)

     Games for the harmonics, (children), YL's and XYL's and the OM's, plus free soda for all.

   • 1988, Amateur Radio (volume 44, issues 1-6, page 38)

     The harmonics (kids, I mean) sometimes failed to recognize me on the rare occasions when I emerged from the shack […]

Translations

Anagrams

• choirman, chromian, omniarch, rahmonic

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.