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Meaning of association

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  association
      n 1: a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he
           joined the Modern Language Association"
      2: the act of consorting with or joining with others; "you
         cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association"
      3: the state of being connected together as in memory or
         imagination; "his association of his father with being beaten
         was too strong to break" [ant: {disassociation}]
      4: the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or
         imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by
         association" [syn: {association}, {connection}, {connexion}]
      5: 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" [syn: {affiliation}, {association}, {tie}, {tie-up}]
      6: 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"
      7: (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in
         solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
      8: (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

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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