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associative property of addition. The property that states that when adding three or more real numbers, the sum is always the same regardless of their grouping. That is,(a + b) + c = a + (b + c) Related Terms: associative property of multiplication, commutative, distributive. English | Espaol.
Examples of operations that are associative include the addition and multiplication of real numbers, integers and rational numbers. Matrix addition and multiplication are also associative. Function composition is associative as well. Subtraction of the real numbers is not associative.