associator

Noun

associator (plural associators)

1. A person who or thing that associates.
   • Some of the worthy aſſociators of the county of Suffolk have reſolved, that they would point out every publican within their reſpective pariſhes, as unfit to retain a licence, who did not exert him or herſelf to preſerve good order, and to prevent meetings or clubs, in which ſeditious or...1793, Thomas Evans, A Dialogue between an Associator and a well-informed Englishman, page 32
   • For example, the pattern associator and the auto associator are two common architectures.
   • The purpose of the pattern associator is to perform paired associate learning; that is, to produce the right output stimulus for a given input stimulus.1993, Dianne Berry, Zoltan Paul Dienes, Implicit Learning: Theoretical and Empirical Issues, Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, page 90
2. A multilinear map, given by [x, y, z] = xy(z) − x(yz), that measures the degree of nonassociativity of a ring or algebra.