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Associative vs Coassociative - What's the difference?

associative | coassociative |

As adjectives the difference between associative and coassociative

is that associative is pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite while coassociative is (mathematics) describing the relationship, in a coalgebra, that is the dual of an associative one.

associative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite.
  • such that, for any operands a, b, c , (a * b) * c = a * (b * c)
  • (computing) addressable by a key more complex than an integer index
    • Awk's associative arrays may be indexed by strings.
    Associative memories were once given considerable attention.

    Derived terms

    * antiassociative

    coassociative

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (mathematics) Describing the relationship, in a coalgebra, that is the dual of an associative one

    • See also

    * cocommutative