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Associative

adjective
1.
Characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination.  Synonym: associatory.



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... Harvard University, U.S., and Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, who had come to Europe to observe the eclipse. On returning to America he kindly sent me a beautiful lithographed copy of a very profound memoir on linear and associative algebra. Although in writing my popular books I had somewhat neglected the higher algebra, I have read a great part of the work; but as I met with some difficulties I wrote to Mr. Spottiswoode, asking his advice as to the books that would ...
— Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville • Mary Somerville
... them in order. You find that you have much trouble to memorize the first list, while the second presents no difficulty at all. The difference lies in the fact that the words of the first list were unrelated, lacking all associative connections with each other, while those of the second list formed a connected ...
— How to Teach Religion - Principles and Methods • George Herbert Betts


Words linked to "Associative" :   associative aphasia, associatory, nonassociative, associate, associable


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