"Association" noun a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he joined the Modern Language Association" the act of consorting with or joining with others; "you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association" 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 (http://word.sc/disassociation)] 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 (http://word.sc/affiliation), tie (http://word.sc/tie), tie-up (http://word.sc/tie-up)] the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by association" [syn: connection (http://word.sc/connection), connexion (http://word.sc/connexion)] 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" (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding (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: http://www.word.sc/Association

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