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association meaning

EN[əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃən]
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WAssociation
  • Association may refer to:
  • Voluntary associations,
  • 501(c) non-profit organization (USA)
  • Alumni association, an association of former students of a college or university
  • Professional association
  • Sports association
  • NounPLassociationsSUF-ation
    1. The act of associating.
      1. The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
        1. Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
      2. (statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
        1. A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
        2. More Examples
          1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
            • The analysis shows the strengths of the associations of microinverter temperature with ambient temperature, PV module temperature, irradiance and AC power of the PV systems.
            • High humic acid concentrations induce homoagglomeration ("self" assembly) and are shown to favor an enthalpically driven association process.
            • Similarly, the role of heat shock transcription factor B3 (HSFB3) has been implicated in response to abiotic stress and in mycorrhyzal association [61 ].
          2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
            • Associations between polyomaviruria and disease characteristics were analysed in cases.
          3. Used in the Ending of Sentence
            • It is interesting to observe, furthermore, that among the higher barbarians and civilized races, lust has become to a certain extent mentalized through hereditary memory and association.

        Meaning of association for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "association" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
        • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
          1. Nouns
            • Countable nouns
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