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Associative storage
In telecommunication, the term associative storage has the following meanings:
1. A storage device whose storage locations are identified by their contents, or by a part of their contents, rather than by their names or positions.
Note: Associative storage can also refer to this process as well as to the device. Synonym content-addressable storage.
2. Storage that supplements another storage.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C
See also: content-addressable memory[?]
Bibliography
Anargyos Krikelis, Charles C. Weems (editors) (1997) Associative Processing and Processors, IEEE Computer Science Press. ISBN 0818676612
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