[uh-soh-see-ey-shuh
n, -shee-] 
| 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. |
| 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. |
| as·so·ci·a·tion (ə-sō'sē-ā'shən, -shē-) n.
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association as·so·ci·a·tion (ə-sō'sē-ā'shən, -shē-)
n.
A connection of persons, things, or ideas by some common factor; union.
A functional connection of two ideas, events, or psychological phenomena established through learning or experience.