Assortative
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Assortative is an adjective meaning Characterized by assorting.
Meaning
Characterized by assorting.
Example Sentences
Assortative interactions can generate highly nonrandom variation among groups.
We don’t date the girl next door; we date the girl who has been served up by an assortative algorithm.
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.
Antonyms for assortative
Common opposites include disassortative.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mating, assimilatory, heteroassociative, affinitive, akin, congruous.
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