Definition of "associator" in English

noun

1. A person who or thing that associates.

   • 2003, Cornelius Weber, Stefan Wermter, Object Lateralisation Using Laterally Connected "What" and "Where" Associator Networks, Okyay Kaynak, Ethem Alpaydin, Erkki Oja, Lei Xu (editors), Springer, Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Information Processing, Springer, LNCS 2714, page 813, We describe an associator neural network to localise a recognised object within the visual field.

2. (algebra) A multilinear map, given by [x, y, z] = xy(z) − x(yz), that measures the degree of nonassociativity of a ring or algebra.