Association ¹

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

Association ²

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

Association ³

Definition: 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 ⁴

Definition: the act of consorting with or joining with others; "you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association"

association ⁵

Definition: the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by association"

association ⁶

Definition: (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

association ⁷

Definition: a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he joined the Modern Language Association"

association ⁸

Definition: (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding

association ⁹

Definition: 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"

association ¹⁰

Definition: 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"

association ¹¹

Definition: the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination; "his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break"