associative
/əˈsəʊʃjətɪv/adjective
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- of or involving the action of associating ideas or things联想的。
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- attrib. Computing of or denoting computer storage in which items are identified by content rather than by address【计算机】（通过内容而不是路径来辨认文件的）联想式（存储）的。
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- Mathematics involving the condition that a group of quantities connected by operators gives the same result whatever their grouping, i.e. in whichever order the operations are performed, as long as the order of the quantities remains the same, e.g. (a × b) × c = a × (b × c)【数】结合的。