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Association
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- 1 The act of associating. uncountable
"And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state."
- 2 the act of consorting with or joining with others wordnet
- 3 The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something. countable
""Well," exclaimed Lady Marchmont, breathing the perfume with which a honeysuckle, wound around an old ash, filled the air, "I do confess that I like common flowers better than any. The hothouse plant has no associations.""
- 4 the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination wordnet
- 5 Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation). countable, uncountable
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- 6 (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 wordnet
- 7 A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society. countable, uncountable
- 8 a formal organization of people or groups of people wordnet
- 9 Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf. countable, uncountable
- 10 (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding wordnet
- 11 A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname, geographical origin, location, trade or business. Philippines, countable, uncountable
- 12 a relation resulting from interaction or dependence wordnet
- 13 a social or business relationship wordnet
- 14 the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination wordnet
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós Proto-Italic *sokjos Latin sokios Latin socius Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin sociō Latin associō Proto-Indo-European *-tisder. Proto-Italic *-tjō Latin -tiō Latin associātiōbor. English association From Latin associātiō, from associō (perhaps via French association). Morphologically associate + -ion. The Philippine sense is a calque of Spanish gremio.
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