Interdisciplinary vs Associative - What's the difference?
interdisciplinary | associative |
Of or pertaining to multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study.
Of something linking multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study together.
Pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite.
such that, for any operands ,
(computing) addressable by a key more complex than an integer index
As adjectives the difference between interdisciplinary and associative
is that interdisciplinary is of or pertaining to multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study while associative is pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite.interdisciplinary
English
(Interdisciplinarity)Adjective
(-)- This journal is interdisciplinary : it has articles on everything from biology to electrical engineering.
- The interdisciplinary co-operation at this university is very impressive.
associative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Awk's associative arrays may be indexed by strings.
- Associative memories were once given considerable attention.
