1Not characterized by association, especially of ideas.
（尤指思想）非联想性的
the development of chaffinch song is most obviously classified as non-associative learning
苍头燕雀歌声的发展很显然要归类为非联想性学习。
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Habituation does not, so it is regarded as a non-associative form of learning.
2Mathematics Involving the condition that a group of quantities connected by operations gives a result dependent upon the order in which the operations are performed.
〔数〕非结合的
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From 1931 to 1937 she studied projective planes introducing Moufang planes and non-associative systems called Moufang loops.
His main work was on associative algebras, non-associative algebras, and Riemann matrices.