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Definition of Association

1. Noun. A formal organization of people or groups of people. "He joined the Modern Language Association"

2. Noun. The act of consorting with or joining with others. "You cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association"

3. Noun. 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. The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination. "Conditioning is a form of learning by association"

5. Noun. A social or business relationship. "Many close associations with England"

6. Noun. A relation resulting from interaction or dependence. "The host is not always injured by association with a parasite"

7. Noun. (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding.

8. Noun. (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.

Definition of Association

1. n. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.

Definition of Association

1. Noun. The act of associating. ¹

2. Noun. The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something. ¹

3. Noun. A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Association

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Medical Definition of Association

1. 1. Correlation involving a high degree of modifiability and also consciousness. 2. The occurrence together of two or more phenotypic characteristics more often than would be expected by change. To be distinguished from linkage. 3. In dysmorphology, the nonrandom occurrence in two or more individuals of multiple anomalies not known to be a polytopic field defect, sequence or syndrome. Origin: L. Associatio (18 Nov 1997)

Literary usage of Association

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1899)
"Officers ef the Illinois Live Stock Breeders' association—President, ... The object of the association shall be the promotion of the interests of the ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"In mediate associations a connection between the test-word and the reaction can be understood by assuming some intermediate member of an association series ..."

3. The Montessori method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori (1912)
"The advanced and highly modern way in which this work is being carried on is due to Edoardo Talamo, Director General of the association. ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1865)
"OF THE association. OBJECTS. THE association contemplates no interference with the ground occupied by other institutions. Its objects are,—To give a ..."

5. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1890)
"association BY SIMILARITY. In parti«al or mixed association we have all along supposed the interesting portion of the disappearing thought to be of ..."

6. Psychology: General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1907)
"This relation between two experiences having a common factor is evidently a more complex fact than association by contiguity, for it involves a sufficient ..."

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