association

Meanings

• a formal organization of people or groups of people
  • "he joined the Modern Language Association"
• the act of consorting with or joining with others
  • "you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by 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"
• the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
  • "conditioning is a form of learning by association"
• a social or business relationship
  • "many close associations with England"
• 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"
• (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
• (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

Synonyms

affiliation, connection, connexion, tie, tie-up