assortative

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English assort

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātuslbor.

English -ate

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Latin -īvus

Old French -ifbor.

Middle English -yf

English -ive

English -ative

English assortative

From assort + -ative.

Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• assortatively
• assortative mating
• assortativeness
• assortative pairing
• assortativity
• nonassortative

Anagrams

• aestivators

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sɔʁ.ta.tiv/
• Homophone: assortatives

Adjective

assortative

1. feminine singular of assortatif

Italian

Adjective

assortative

1. feminine plural of assortativo

Anagrams

• assortivate, attivassero, riassettavo, sovrastiate