assortative en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English assort Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English -ative English assortative From assort + -ative.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Characterized by assorting.
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:In an assortative network, highly connected individuals are linked mostly to other highly connected people. This results in an outbreak that spreads quickly through these clusters of high-risk individuals, but struggles to reach the other, less connected, parts of the network.
2020, Adam Kucharski, The Rules of Contagion, page 75: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:
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Deriveds
assortative pairing · assortative mating · nonassortative · assortativity · assortativeness · assortatively