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Vinony

associativity

noun

  1. the principle of association by which people act in collective, self-organized ways in organizing their cultural life
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English associate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English associative Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English associativity From associative + -ity.

  1. The condition of being associative.

    “The associativity of OR and AND is not at all obvious. It is tempting to assume that because OR and AND are commutative that they must be associative also. This is not the case, however, and some commutative Boolean operators are not associative. Examples include NAND and NOR.”

  2. The property of an operator which determines how it is grouped with operators of the same precedence in the absence of parentheses.