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assortations

assortations is the plural of assortation.

Meaning of assortation

Noun

assortation (countable and uncountable, plural assortations)

  1. The act of assorting
    • Contemporary evolutionary ecology identified several factors that increase inclusive fitness, in addition to kin-selection, such as assortation or homophily, and social synergies triggered by cooperation.2015, Klaus Jaffe, “Extended Inclusive Fitness Theory bridges Economics and Biology through a common understanding of Social Synergy”, in arXiv

Questions about assortations

What is assortations the plural of?
Assortations is the plural of assortation.

Words near assortations in the dictionary

  1. assonating
  2. Assonet
  3. assoon
  4. assort
  5. assortation
  6. assortations
  7. assortative
  8. assortative mating
  9. assortative matings
  10. assortative pairing
  11. assortative pairings

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