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nonassociative

adj

Etymology

From non- + associative.

  1. derived from associātus
  2. inherited from associat
  3. suffixed as associative — “associate + -ive”
  4. prefixed as nonassociative — “non + associative”

Definitions

  1. Not associative.

  2. Whose multiplication operation is not assumed to be associative for all elements.

    • This book has been written about associative algebras. However, there is an analogous “PI-theory” that can be carried out for nonassociative rings, which is outlined here.

The neighborhood

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