associative

Adjective

Meaning

Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty.

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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. Larry Wall

Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified. Vannevar Bush

Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a secondary stage, when the mentioned associative play is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will. Albert Einstein

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations. Ferdinand de Saussure

It affords an immediate step, however, to associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing. Vannevar Bush

All the distances are associative. Alan Moore

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