"assortative" meaning in All languages combined

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        "1": "en",
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      "expansion": "assort + -ative",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From assort + -ative.",
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "assortative (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "disassortative"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ative",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "assortative mating"
        },
        {
          "word": "assortative pairing"
        },
        {
          "word": "assortativity"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, D. Wilson, L. Dugatkin, “Group Selection and Assortative Interactions,”, in The American Naturalist, volume 149, number 2, page 336",
          "text": "Assortative interactions can generate highly nonrandom variation among groups.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 May 15, Olga Khazan, “What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "We don’t date the girl next door; we date the girl who has been served up by an assortative algorithm.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Adam Kucharski, The Rules of Contagion, page 75",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Characterized by assorting."
      ],
      "id": "en-assortative-en-adj-kCOYLUp3",
      "links": [
        [
          "assorting",
          "assort"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "assortative"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "adjective form"
      },
      "expansion": "assortative",
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  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
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          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
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          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "assortatif"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "feminine singular of assortatif"
      ],
      "id": "en-assortative-fr-adj-e8OpXslG",
      "links": [
        [
          "assortatif",
          "assortatif#French"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "form-of",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/a.sɔʁ.ta.tiv/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "assortatives"
    }
  ],
  "word": "assortative"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "adjective form"
      },
      "expansion": "assortative",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "assortativo"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "feminine plural of assortativo"
      ],
      "id": "en-assortative-it-adj-F9xyDYSF",
      "links": [
        [
          "assortativo",
          "assortativo#Italian"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "form-of",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "assortative"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "assortative mating"
    },
    {
      "word": "assortative pairing"
    },
    {
      "word": "assortativity"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "assort",
        "3": "-ative"
      },
      "expansion": "assort + -ative",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From assort + -ative.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "assortative (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "word": "disassortative"
        }
      ],
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "English terms suffixed with -ative",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, D. Wilson, L. Dugatkin, “Group Selection and Assortative Interactions,”, in The American Naturalist, volume 149, number 2, page 336",
          "text": "Assortative interactions can generate highly nonrandom variation among groups.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 May 15, Olga Khazan, “What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "We don’t date the girl next door; we date the girl who has been served up by an assortative algorithm.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Adam Kucharski, The Rules of Contagion, page 75",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Characterized by assorting."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "assorting",
          "assort"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "assortative"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "adjective form"
      },
      "expansion": "assortative",
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  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
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        "French adjective forms",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French non-lemma forms",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "French terms with homophones"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "assortatif"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "feminine singular of assortatif"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "assortatif",
          "assortatif#French"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "form-of",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/a.sɔʁ.ta.tiv/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "assortatives"
    }
  ],
  "word": "assortative"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "adjective form"
      },
      "expansion": "assortative",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian adjective forms",
        "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
        "Italian non-lemma forms"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "assortativo"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "feminine plural of assortativo"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "assortativo",
          "assortativo#Italian"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "form-of",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "assortative"
}