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association

English

🔊 the act of consorting with or joining with others
“you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association”
🔊 the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
“conditioning is a form of learning by association”
🔊 (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
🔊 a formal organization of people or groups of people
“he joined the Modern Language Association”
🔊 (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
🔊 a relation resulting from interaction or dependence
“flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear”
🔊 the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination
“his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break”
🔊 a social or business relationship
“a valuable financial affiliation”