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Noun
/əˌsōsēˈāSHən/,/-SHē-/,
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associations, plural;
  1. (often in names) A group of people organized for a joint purpose
    • - the National Association of Broadcasters
  2. A plant community defined by a characteristic group of dominant plant species

  3. A connection or cooperative link between people or organizations
    • - he developed a close association with the university
    • - the program was promoted in association with the Department of Music
  4. The action or state of becoming a member of an organization with subordinate status
    • - Slovenia signed association agreements with the European Union
  5. The linking of molecules through hydrogen bonding or other interaction short of full bond formation

  6. A mental connection between ideas or things
    • - the word bureaucracy has unpleasant associations
  7. The action of making such a connection
    • - the association of alchemy with “hieroglyphics” and “cabala.”
  8. The fact of occurring with something else; co-occurrence
    • - cases of cancer found in association with colitis
  1. (association) a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he joined the Modern Language Association"
  2. (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"
  3. (association) (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
  4. (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
  5. (associatory) associative: characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination ; "associative learning"
  6. (Association (astronomy)) An association (astronomy) is a combined or co-added group of astronomical exposures from which cosmic rays have been removed. ...
  7. (Association (chemistry)) Dissociation in chemistry and biochemistry is a general process in which ionic compounds (complexes, or salts) separate or split into smaller particles, ions, or radicals, usually in a reversible manner. ...
  8. (Association (ecology)) An association is the "ultimate classification level" of ecological systems. Local conditions permit several understory species to coexist with the same overstory dominants, and associations refer to the many co-occurring species rather than just the few dominant ones.
  9. (Association (mathematics)) In mathematics, associativity is a property of some binary operations. It means that, within an expression containing two or more occurrences in a row of the same associative operator, the order in which the operations are performed does not matter as long as the ...
  10. (Association (object-oriented programming)) In object-oriented programming, association defines a relationship between classes of objects which allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf. ...
  11. (Association (psychology)) In psychology and marketing, two concepts or stimuli are associated when the experience of one leads to the effects of another, due to repeated pairing. This is sometimes called Pavlovian association for Ivan Pavlov's pioneering of classical conditioning.
  12. (Association) MasterCard International, Visa U.S.A. or Visa International, which are licensing regulatory agencies for bankcard activities.
  13. (association) sampayutta-paccaya, is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya, q.v.). asubha: 'impurity', loathsomeness, foulness. - In Vis.M. VI, it is the cemetery contemplations (sīvathika, q.v.) that are called 'meditation-subjects of impurity' (asubha-kammaṭṭhāna; s. bhāvanā). ...
  14. (Association) A group. Often, associations can offer individual health insurance plans specially designed for their members.
  15. (association) A group of species living in the same place.
  16. An association permits an entity to be referenced by different names in a scoping unit or by the same or different names in different scoping units. Several kinds of association exist. ...
  17. An association is a membership organization that may be incorporated or unincorporated.
  18. (Association) Two variables are associated if some of the variability of one can be accounted for by the other. ...
  19. (association) the co-occurrence of an artifact with other archaeological remains, usually in the same matrix.
  20. (Association) A group of individuals or  employers or combination thereof.
  21. (Association) The tendency for two things to occur together.
  22. (Association) An organization of persons having common interests, purposes, etc.; society; league.
  23. (Association) A nonprofit corporation or homeowner group that is unincorporated, created for the purpose of managing a common interest development.
  24. (Association) A relationship between objects or variables.
  25. (Association) Objects found near one another in the same context are said to be in association.