assortative
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assortative (not comparable)
- Characterized by assorting.
- Antonym: disassortative
- 1997, D. Wilson, L. Dugatkin, “Group Selection and Assortative Interactions,”, in The American Naturalist, volume 149, number 2, page 336:
- Assortative interactions can generate highly nonrandom variation among groups.
- 2019 May 15, Olga Khazan, “What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- We don’t date the girl next door; we date the girl who has been served up by an assortative algorithm.
- 2020, Adam Kucharski, The Rules of Contagion, page 75:
- 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.
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- IPA(key): /a.sɔʁ.ta.tiv/
- Homophone: assortatives
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