Definition:Associative

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Associative may refer to:

• Associative Operation
• Power-Associative Operation
• Associative Algebraic Structure, usually referred to as a semigroup
• Associative Algebra

Historical Note

The term associative was coined by William Hamilton in about $1844$ while thinking about octonions, which aren't.

Also see

• Definition:Commutative
• Definition:Distributive