assortative

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English

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Etymology

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From assort +‎ -ative.

Adjective

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assortative (not comparable)

  1. Characterized by assorting.
    Antonym: disassortative
    • 1997, D. Wilson, L. Dugatkin, “Group Selection and Assortative Interactions,”, in The American Naturalist, volume 149, number 2, page 336:
      Assortative interactions can generate highly nonrandom variation among groups.
    • 2019 May 15, Olga Khazan, “What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones”, in The Atlantic[1]:
      We don’t date the girl next door; we date the girl who has been served up by an assortative algorithm.
    • 2020, Adam Kucharski, The Rules of Contagion, page 75:
      In an assortative network, highly connected individuals are linked mostly to other highly connected people. This results in an outbreak that spreads quickly through these clusters of high-risk individuals, but struggles to reach the other, less connected, parts of the network.

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assortative

  1. feminine singular of assortatif

Italian

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Adjective

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assortative

  1. feminine plural of assortativo

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