English-Spanish translations for associative

• asociativo
• asociativa

Definition of associative

• Pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite
• Such that, for any operands $a,\; b$ and $c$, $*\; c\; =\; a\; *$; whose multiplication operation is associative
• Addressable by a key more complex than an integer index

Examples

• Awks associative arrays may be indexed by strings
• Associative memories were once given considerable attention

Related words

• associativity
• associatively
• autoassociative
• associative law
• associative array
• associative cache
• associative list
• associative memory
• set associative