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Noun association has 8 senses
- association - a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he joined the Modern Language Association"
--1 is a kind of organization, organisation
--1 has member: chapter; associate
--1 has particulars: | | American Baptist Convention, Northern Baptist Convention; Southern Baptist Convention; cooperative; club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order; family, fellowship; American Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars, VFW; league, conference; secret society; consortium, pool, syndicate; professional association; Fabian Society; gang, pack, ring, mob; legion; chamber of commerce; institute; Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons, AARP; Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN |
- association - the act of consorting with or joining with others; "you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association"
--2 is a kind of social activity
--2 has particulars: fraternization, fraternisation; affiliation
- 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 is a kind of union, unification
Antonyms: disassociation
- affiliation, association, tie, tie-up - a social or business relationship; "a valuable financial affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team"; "many close associations with England"
--4 is a kind of relationship
- association, connection, connexion - the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by association"
--5 is a kind of memory, remembering
--5 has particulars: colligation
- association - a relation resulting from interaction or dependence; "flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear"; "the host is not always injured by association with a parasite"
--6 is a kind of relation
- association - (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
--7 is a kind of chemical process, chemical change, chemical action
--7 has particulars: hydration; solvation
- 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
--8 is a kind of group, grouping
--8 has particulars: antibiosis
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