Word.ws English Dictionary

non-associative

non-associative is the alternative form of nonassociative.

Meaning of nonassociative

Adjective

nonassociative (not comparable)

  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.1980, Lewis Halle Rowen, Polynomial Identities in Ring Theory, Academic Press, page 327

Phrases with non-associative

Questions about non-associative

What is non-associative the alternative form of?
Non-associative is the alternative form of nonassociative.

Words near non-associative in the dictionary

  1. non-Aristotelian
  2. non-aromatic
  3. non-arrival
  4. non-arrivals
  5. non-articulated
  6. non-associative
  7. non-associative algebra
  8. non-assumption
  9. non-assumptions
  10. non-atomised
  11. non-attachment

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: non-associative (page history and authors); nonassociative (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “non-associative.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/non-associative. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.