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assortative

assortative adjective: characterized by assorting.

Adjective

assortative (not comparable)

  1. Characterized by assorting.
    • Assortative interactions can generate highly nonrandom variation among groups.1997, D. Wilson, L. Dugatkin, “Group Selection and Assortative Interactions,”, in The American Naturalist, volume 149, number 2, page 336
    • We don’t date the girl next door; we date the girl who has been served up by an assortative algorithm.2019 May 15, Olga Khazan, “What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones”, in The Atlantic
    Antonyms:
    disassortative

Antonyms of assortative

Origin of assortative

From assort + -ative.

Words formed from assortative

Phrases with assortative

Questions about assortative

What does assortative mean?
Assortative means characterized by assorting.
What part of speech is assortative?
Assortative is an adjective.

Words near assortative in the dictionary

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

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