assortative

adj

Etymology

From assort + -ative.

Definitions

  1. Characterized by assorting.

    • Assortative interactions can generate highly nonrandom variation among groups.
    • We don’t date the girl next door; we date the girl who has been served up by an assortative algorithm.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for assortative. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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