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English associate

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Latin -īvus

Old French -ifbor.

Middle English -yf

English -ive

English associative

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Latin -itāsder.

Old French -itebor.

Middle English -ite

English -ity

English associativity

associativity (plural associativities)

(algebra) The condition of being associative.
- 2022 August 4, William Bahn, “Boolean Algebra Laws—Delving Into Boolean Identities”, in All About Circuits‎^[1]:
  The associativity of OR and AND is not at all obvious. It is tempting to assume that because OR and AND are commutative that they must be associative also. This is not the case, however, and some commutative Boolean operators are not associative. Examples include NAND and NOR.
(programming) The property of an operator which determines how it is grouped with operators of the same precedence in the absence of parentheses.
- 2018, Richard Grimes, Marius Bancila, Modern C++: Efficient and Scalable Application Development, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 27:
  The following table groups all of the operators with equal precendence and lists their associativity. The higher in the table, the higher precedence of execution the operator has in an expression.

condition of being associative