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1. (n.) association
an organization of people with a common purpose and having a formal structure.
2. association
the act of associating or the state of being associated.
3. association
connection; relationship.
4. association
the connection or relation of ideas, feelings, etc.; correlation of elements of perception, reasoning, or the like.
5. association
an idea, image, feeling, etc., suggested by or connected with something other than itself; an overtone or connotation.
6. association
a group of plants of one or more species living together under uniform environmental conditions and having a uniform and distinctive aspect.
7. association
a weak form of chemical bonding, as hydration.
Etymology: (1860–65)
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| Definition of 'association' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) association
a formal organization of people or groups of people
"he joined the Modern Language Association"
2. (noun) association
the act of consorting with or joining with others
"you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association"
3. (noun) association
the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination
"his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break"
4. (noun) association, connection, connexion
the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
"conditioning is a form of learning by association"
5. (noun) affiliation, association, tie, tie-up
a social or business relationship
"a valuable financial affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team"; "many close associations with England"
6. (noun) association
a relation resulting from interaction or dependence
"flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear"; "the host is not always injured by association with a parasite"
7. (noun) association
(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
8. (noun) association
(ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species
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1. (noun) association
an organization
a teachers' association; an association of jazz musicians
2. association
a connection or relationship
a long association between the two companies
3. association
in association with
working together
broadcast in association with World Travel Inc.
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| Definition of 'association' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) association
the act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things
2. (noun) association
mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing
3. (noun) association
union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches
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| Definition of 'association' |
U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. association
A functional relationship between psychological phenomena of such nature that the presence of one tends to evoke the other; also, the process by which such a relationship is established.
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Sense: a club, society etc.
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 Afrikaans: vereniging, assosiasie |
 Arabic: ناد، إتِّحاد |
 Bulgarian: асоциация |
 Brazilian: associação |
 Czech: sdružení, svaz |
 German: die Vereinigung |
 Danish: forening; sammenslutning |
 Greek: σύλλογος, λέσχη, όμιλος |
 Spanish: asociación |
 Estonian: selts,ühendus |
 Farsi: انجمن |
 Finnish: yhdistys |
 French: société |
 Hebrew: חֶברָה, אִיגוּד, עֲמוּתָה |
 Hindi: संघ |
 Croatian: društvo |
 Hungarian: egyesület, társaság |
 Indonesian: perhimpunan |
 Icelandic: félag, samtök |
 Italian: associazione |
 Japanese: 協会, 団体 |
 Korean: 사교 단체 |
 Lithuanian: asociacija, susivienijima |
 Latvian: asociācija; biedrība |
 Malay: persatuan |
 Dutch: vereniging |
 Norwegian: forening, sammenslutning |
 Polish: stowarzyszenie |
 Persian: انجمن |
 Pashto: ټولنه |
 Portuguese: associação |
 Romanian: asociaţie |
 Russian: ассоциация; общество |
 Slovak: združenie |
 Slovenian: društvo, družba |
 Serbian: klub, društvo |
 Swedish: förening, sammanslutning |
 Thai: สมาคม |
 Turkish: dernek, cemiyet |
 Taiwanese: 協會 |
 Ukrainian: товариство; спілка |
 Urdu: انجمن ، جماعت |
 Vietnamese: hội |
 Chinese: 协会 |
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