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==English==

===Etymology===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*sekʷ-|id=follow}}
From {{suffix|en|associate|ive}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/əˈsoʊ.ʃi.ə.tɪv/|/əˈsoʊ.si.ə.tɪv/|a=US}}
* {{audio|en|En-us-associative.ogg|a=US}}

===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}

# Pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by [[association]]; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1998|author=Kazimierz Zieliński|chapter=Pairing, Continuity, Contingency - What's the Difference|editor=Anna Neugebauer|title=Macromolecular Interplay in Brain '''Associative''' Mechanisms: Proceedings of the International School of Biocybernetics|publisher=World Scientific|pageurl=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vQGJkpdPuKwC&pg=PA63&dq=%22associative%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjG_OvZnJvbAhUExWMKHe6LDIgQ6AEIpgIwLQ#v=onepage&q=%22associative%22&f=false|page=63
|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2014| title=Knowledge and Politics |author=Volker Meja; Nico Stehr | page=| passage=Sometimes the attempt was made to reduce the inner to the outer world (Condillac, Mach, Avenarius, materialism); sometimes the outer to the inner world (Descartes, Berkeley, Fichte); sometimes the sphere of the absolute to the others (e.g., by trying to infer causally the essence and existence of something divine in general); {{...}}; sometimes one's own body to a merely '''associative''' coordination of the self-perception of the own self and organ sensations with the own body as perceived from outside. }}
# {{lb|en|algebra|of a [[binary operator]] <math>*</math>}} Such that, for any [[operand]]s <math>a, b</math> and <math>c</math>, <math>(a * b) * c = a * (b * c)</math>; {{lb|en|of a [[ring]], etc.}} whose [[multiplication]] operation is associative.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2000|author=Freddy Van Oystaeyen|title=Algebraic Geometry for '''Associative''' Algebras|publisher=Marcel Dekker|pageurl=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0XBJwWI8nSkC&pg=PA235&dq=%22associative%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjG_OvZnJvbAhUExWMKHe6LDIgQ6AEI8AEwJA#v=onepage&q=%22associative%22&f=false|page=235
|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2006|author=Ibrahim Assem; Daniel Simson; Andrzej Skowroński|title=Elements of the Representation Theory of '''Associative''' Algebras, 1: Techniques of Representation Theory|pageurl=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ayNHpi3tYhQC&pg=PR7&dq=%22associative%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjG_OvZnJvbAhUExWMKHe6LDIgQ6AEIuQIwMA#v=onepage&q=%22associative%22&f=false|page=vii|publisher=w:Cambridge University Press
|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2014|author=Miguel Cabrera García; Ángel Rodríguez Palacios|title=Non-'''Associative''' Normed Algebras, Volume 1: The Vidav–Palmer and Gelfand-Naimark Theorems|pageurl=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NacdBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=%22associative%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjG_OvZnJvbAhUExWMKHe6LDIgQ6AEIwwEwHA#v=onepage&q=%22associative%22&f=false|page=1|publisher=w:Cambridge University Press
|passage=In this section we develop the basic theory of normed algebras, putting special emphasis on the case of complete normed unital '''associative''' complex algebras.}}
# {{lb|en|computing}} Addressable by a key more complex than an integer index.
#: {{ux|en|{{w|AWK}}'s '''associative''' arrays may be indexed by strings.}}
#: {{ux|en|'''Associative''' memories were once given considerable attention.}}

====Antonyms====
* {{l|en|antiassociative}}

====Hyponyms====
{{col2
|en|left-associative
|right-associative
}}

====Derived terms====
{{col|en|associatively|associativeness|assosymmetric|autoassociative|coassociative|disassociative|heteroassociative|nonassociative|photoassociative|unassociative|associativity|associative plural|non-associative
|preassociative
|associative algebra|associative case|neuro-associative physiology|non-associative algebra|power-associative algebra}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|en|associative array}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|algebraic property of an operator}}
* Catalan: {{t|ca|associatiu}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|asociativní}}
* Danish: {{t|da|associativ}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|assosiatiivinen}}, {{t+|fi|liitännäinen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|associatif}}
* German: {{t+|de|assoziativ}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|προσεταιριστικός}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|asszociatív}}
* Icelandic: {{t|is|tenginn}}, {{t|is|tengi-}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|asosiatif}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|comhthiomsaitheach}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|associativo}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|łączny}}, {{t|pl|asocjatywny}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|associativo}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|asociativ}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|ассоциати́вный}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|asociativo}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|associativ}}
* Tagalog: {{t|tl|ugnayin}}
* Turkish: {{t|tr|birleşmeli}}
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* Arabic: {{t+check|ar|تَجْمِيعِيَّة}}
* French: {{t+check|fr|associatif}}
* Irish: {{t-check|ga|coheshaghtagh}}
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==Danish==

===Adjective===
{{head|da|adjective form}}

# {{neuter singular of|da|associativ}}

==French==

===Pronunciation===
* {{fr-IPA}}
* {{audio|fr|LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-associative.wav}}

===Adjective===
{{head|fr|adjective form}}

# {{inflection of|fr|associatif||f|s}}

==Italian==

===Adjective===
{{head|it|adjective form|g=f-p}}

# {{adj form of|it|associativo||f|p}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|it|a=aaceiiosstv|associatevi}}

==Swedish==

===Adjective===
{{head|sv|adjective form}}

# {{adj form of|sv|associativ||def|natm|s}}