Associative

Associative is a state of being something associating ideas or things. In computing, it denotes a computer storage in which the stored items are identified by content rather than by address where the content is located. In mathematics, it denotes the condition if the order of quantities in a group remains the same, the quantities connected by operator gives the same result irrespective of their groupings. Fore example, ax(bxc)=(axb)xc. Here a, b, and c are quantities connected by operator x, a and b, and b and c are different groupings.