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association

noun
/əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃn̩/UK/əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós Proto-Italic *sokjos Latin sokios Latin socius Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin sociō Latin associō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin associātiōbor. English association From Latin associātiō, from associō (perhaps via French association). Morphologically associate + -ion. The Philippine sense is a calque of Spanish gremio.

  1. derived from association
  2. derived from associātiō

Definitions

  1. The act of associating.

    • 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.

  2. The state of being associated

    The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.

    • "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."

  3. Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically…

    Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A group of persons associated for a common purpose

      A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.

    2. Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another…

      Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.

    3. A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese…

      A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname, geographical origin, location, trade or business.

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Derived

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, misassociation · +17 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at association. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at association. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at association

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA