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as⋅so⋅ci⋅a⋅tion

  [uh-soh-see-ey-shuhn, -shee-]
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–noun
1. an organization of people with a common purpose and having a formal structure.
2. the act of associating or state of being associated.
3. friendship; companionship: Their close association did not last long.
4. connection or combination.
5. the connection or relation of ideas, feelings, sensations, etc.; correlation of elements of perception, reasoning, or the like.
6. an idea, image, feeling, etc., suggested by or connected with something other than itself; an accompanying thought, emotion, or the like; an overtone or connotation: My associations with that painting are of springlike days.
7. Ecology. a group of plants of one or more species living together under uniform environmental conditions and having a uniform and distinctive aspect.
8. Chemistry. a weak form of chemical bonding involving aggregation of molecules of the same compound.
9. touch football.
10. Astronomy. stellar association.
Origin:
1525–35; (< MF) < ML associātiōn- (s. of associātiō). See associate, -ion

Related forms:
as⋅so⋅ci⋅a⋅tion⋅al, adjective

Synonyms:
1. alliance, union; society, company; band. 3. fellowship.
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stellar association

 
–noun Astronomy.
a sparsely populated group of between 10 and 1000 young stars of similar spectral type and common origin that are moving too fast to form a permanent, gravitationally bound system.
Also called association of stars, association.
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as·so·ci·a·tion   (ə-sō'sē-ā'shən, -shē-)   
n.  
  1. The act of associating or the state of being associated.
  2. An organized body of people who have an interest, activity, or purpose in common; a society.
    1. A mental connection or relation between thoughts, feelings, ideas, or sensations.
    2. A remembered or imagined feeling, emotion, idea, or sensation linked to a person, object, or idea.
  4. Chemistry Any of various processes of combination, such as hydration, solvation, or complex-ion formation, depending on relatively weak chemical bonding.
  5. Ecology A large number of organisms in a specific geographic area constituting a community with one or two dominant species.
as·so'ci·a'tion·al adj.
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Association

As*so`ci*a"tion\ (?; 277), n. [Cf. F. association, LL. associatio, fr. L. associare.]

1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." --Hooker.

Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. --Boyle.

2. Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing.

Words . . . must owe their powers association. --Johnson.

Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable associations, be profaned? --Coleridge.

3. 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.

Association of ideas (Physiol.), the combination or connection of states of mind or their objects with one another, as the result of which one is said to be revived or represented by means of the other. The relations according to which they are thus connected or revived are called the law of association. Prominent among them are reckoned the relations of time and place, and of cause and effect. --Porter.

Association

An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and physical welfare of young men, founded, June 6, 1844, by George Williams (knighted therefor by Queen Victoria) in London. In 1851 it extended to the United States and Canada, and in 1855 representatives of similar organizations throughout Europe and America formed an international body. The movement has successfully expanded not only among young men in general, but also specifically among railroad men, in the army and navy, with provision for Indians and negroes, and a full duplication of all the various lines of oepration in the boys' departments.

Association

An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which were combined in the year 1884 as a national association. Now nearly all the civilized countries, and esp. the United States, have local, national, and international organizations.
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Language Translation for : association
Spanish: asociación,
German: die Vereinigung,
Japanese: 協会, 団体
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Main Entry: as·so·ci·a·tion
Function: noun
1 : a group of persons who share common interests or a common purpose and who are organized with varying degrees of formality —compare CORPORATION
2 : the act of having contact or communication with or keeping company with another association>
3 : the sharing (as by an aider and abettor) in the criminal intent of a person who commits a crime
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Main Entry: as·so·ci·a·tion
Pronunciation: &-"sO-sE-'A-sh&n, -shE-
Function: noun
1 : the act of associating
2 : something linked in memory or imagination with a thing or person
3 : the process of forming mental connections or bonds between sensations, ideas, or memories
4 : the aggregation of chemical species to form (as with hydrogen bonds) loosely bound chemical complexes —compare POLYMERIZATION 1 —as·so·ci·a·tion·al /-shn&l, -sh&n-&l/ adjective
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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association as·so·ci·a·tion (ə-sō'sē-ā'shən, -shē-)
n.

  1. A connection of persons, things, or ideas by some common factor; union.
  2. A functional connection of two ideas, events, or psychological phenomena established through learning or experience.

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association   (ə-sō'sē-ā'shən, -shē-)  Pronunciation Key 
A large number of organisms in a specific geographic area constituting a community with one or two dominant species.
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