associatively
/əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪtɪvli/
adverb
- In a way that involves connecting ideas, memories, or things together in the mind.
- She associatively linked the smell of cinnamon with her grandmother's kitchen.
- He associatively remembered the song when he saw the old photograph.
- The brain works associatively, connecting new information to what we already know.
- In mathematics or computing, in a way that follows the associative property (where grouping does not change the result).
- Addition is associatively true: (2 + 3) + 4 equals 2 + (3 + 4).
- In this algebra system, the operation is not associatively defined, so parentheses are required.
- The programmer designed the function to work associatively so that the order of operations didn't matter.