associative

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The mode is free-associative, but the movie's blunt accusatory title fits multiple periods of its subject's life.

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  1. adjective Of, characterized by, resulting from, or causing association.
  2. adjective Mathematics Independent of the grouping of elements. For example, if a + (b + c) = (a + b) + c, the operation indicated by + is associative.

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  • 'There was a lot of pressure in making the movie - even the way it came out you could see it was a very free-associative, crazy movie, and David was under a tremendous amount of pressure. —  GreenCine Daily
  • To achieve this goal, Gibbs creates tools that are naturally intuitive, graphically interactive, extremely visual, associative, and just plain enjoyable to use. —  ThomasNet Industrial Newsroom - Today's New Product News
  • Because they are associative, if the model is changed, or the section plane is updated, the 2D profiles, hatches, and fills are also updated automatically.
  • After making the leap with his 1999 film Variations from formally mediated abstractions into observational slices of poetic time, linked by a non-associative editing style, Dorsky spent nearly a decade making, well, variations on this style. —  GreenCine Daily
  • Some brainstorming tools ask you questions, while others rely on a variety of proven associative or lateral thinking techniques. —  Stepcase Lifehack
 

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/əˈsoʊʃɪətɪv/
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