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Associative vs Relationship - What's the difference?

associative | relationship |

As an adjective associative

is pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite.

As a noun relationship is

connection or association; the condition of being related.

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

    relationship

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Connection or association; the condition of being related.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter
    • , title= Cronies and capitols , passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.}}
  • Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
  • A romantic or sexual involvement.
  • A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 5, author=Nathan Rabin
    • , title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) , passage=“I Love Lisa” opens with one of my favorite underappreciated running jokes from The Simpsons : the passive-aggressive, quietly contentious relationship of radio jocks Bill and Marty, whose mindless happy talk regularly gives way to charged exchanges that betray the simmering resentment and disappointment perpetually lingering just under the surface of their relationship .}}
  • (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

    • Derived terms

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    See also

    * relate * relation * relative