association
(noun) the act of consorting with or joining with others; “you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association”
association, connection, connexion
(noun) the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; “conditioning is a form of learning by association”
association
(noun) (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
association
(noun) a formal organization of people or groups of people; “he joined the Modern Language Association”
association
(noun) (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
association
(noun) 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”
affiliation, association, tie, tie-up
(noun) 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”
association
(noun) the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination; “his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
association (countable and uncountable, plural associations)
The act of associating.
The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
(statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
(object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
• (state of being associated): connection; See also relation
Source: Wiktionary
As*so`ci*a"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. association, LL. associatio, fr. L. associare.]
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 February 2025
(verb) reach the summit (of a mountain); “They breasted the mountain”; “Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.