In telecommunication, associative storage is a computer storage device whose storage locations are identified by their contents, or by a part of their contents, rather than by their names or positions. Associative storage can also refer to this process as well as to the device. This is also known as content-addressable storage.
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Anargyos Krikelis, Charles C. Weems (editors) (1997) Associative Processing and Processors, IEEE Computer Science Press. ISBN 0818676612