Associative thoughts are things that you think of because you see, hear, or think of something that reminds you of those things or which you associate with those things. The associative guilt was ingrained in his soul. reminding you of something else
Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty
A dyadic operation in which two sequential operations on three arguments can first operate on either the first two or the last two arguments, producing the same result in either case: (a + b) + c = a + (b + c) Also see: commutative and distributive
1 In abstract algebra, a dyadic operation in which two sequential operations on three arguments can first operate on either the first two or the last two arguments, producing the same result in either case: (a + b) + c = a + (b + c) 2 In algebra, the associative law for addition and multiplication The algebraic law for evaluating the result of grouping terms or factors in different ways, as in conventional arithmetic: a + (b + c) = (a + b) + c a * (b * c) = (a * b) * c Also see: commutative and distributive