Thesaurus: association

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1. n. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.
2. n. Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing.
3. n. 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.
4. n. a formal organization of people or groups of people
5. n. the act of consorting with or joining with others
6. n. the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination
7. n. the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
8. n. a social or business relationship
9. n. a relation resulting from interaction or dependence
10. n. (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
11. n. (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
12. 1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing. Words . . . must owe their powers association. Johnson. Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable associations, be profaned Coleridge. 3. 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 of ideas (Physiol.), the combination or connection of states of mind or their objects with one another, as the result of which one is said to be revived or represented by means of the other. The relations according to which they are thus connected or revived are called the law of association. Prominent among them are reckoned the relations of time and place, and of cause and effect. Porter.