association
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃn̩/
ipa: /əˌsəʊsiˈeɪʃn̩/
ipa: /əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/
ipa: /əˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: associations
Etymology: From Latin associātiō, from associō (perhaps via French association). Morphologically associate + -ion.
The Philippine sense is a calque of Spanish gremio.
Senses: examples: text: And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state.
ref: 1970, Aristotle, translated by Benjamin Jowett, Politics, page I.2,1253a15-20:
glosses: The act of associating.
examples: text: "Well," exclaimed Lady Marchmont, breathing the perfume with which a honeysuckle, wound around an old ash, filled the air, "I do confess that I like common flowers better than any. The hothouse plant has no associations."
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Fête at Sir Robert Walpole’s Continued”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 39:
text: Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
ref: 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 164:
glosses: The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
glosses: A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
synonyms: kongsi
qualifier: Chinese Filipino
glosses: A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname, geographical origin, location, trade or business.
Synonyms: topics: state
word: connection
raw_tags: of being associated
word: ass'n
Derived terms: AADAOPA
alumni association
amateur press association
anociassociation
antiassociation
articles of association
association copy
association fallacy
association football
associationism
associationist
association link
association list
association of ideas
association time
autoassociation
bar association
bioassociation
bisociation
CHARGE association
coassociation
damn by association
disassociation
employers' association
file association
free association
free clothes association
freedom of association
guarantee association
guilt by association
heteroassociation
homeowner association
homeowner's association
homeowners' association
ichnoassociation
interassociation
klang association
magnetoassociation
memorandum of association
mis-association
misassociation
monoassociation
nonassociation
parent-teacher association
parent-teacher-student association
photoassociation
phytoassociation
preassociation
prosecution association
reassociation
riding association
robust association of massive baryonic objects
savings and loan association
subassociation
trisociation
word association
Related terms: word: associate
word: associational
word: alliance
word: coalition
word: league
word: union
word: guild
word: clan