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association

  (ə-sō'sē-ā'shən, -shē-) pronunciation
n.
  1. The act of associating or the state of being associated.
  2. An organized body of people who have an interest, activity, or purpose in common; a society.
    1. A mental connection or relation between thoughts, feelings, ideas, or sensations.
    2. A remembered or imagined feeling, emotion, idea, or sensation linked to a person, object, or idea.
  3. Chemistry. Any of various processes of combination, such as hydration, solvation, or complex-ion formation, depending on relatively weak chemical bonding.
  4. Ecology. A large number of organisms in a specific geographic area constituting a community with one or two dominant species.
associational as·so'ci·a'tion·al adj.
 
 
Business Dictionary: Association

A body of persons united without a charter, but upon the methods and forms used by incorporated bodies, for the prosecution of some common enterprise.

 
Thesaurus: association

noun

  1. The state of being associated: affiliation, alliance, combination, conjunction, connection, cooperation, partnership. See near/far/distance.
  2. A group of people united in a relationship and having some interest, activity, or purpose in common: club, confederation, congress, federation, fellowship, fraternity, guild, league, order, organization, society, sorority, union. See group.
  3. A group of athletic teams that play each other: circuit, conference, league, loop. See group.
  4. Something, such as a feeling, thought, or idea, associated in one's mind or imagination with a specific person or thing: connection, connotation, suggestion. See suggest.

 
Antonyms: association

n

Definition: friendship
Antonyms: aloneness, antagonism, disunion, isolation, opposition, rivalry, seclusion, separation, solitude

n

Definition: mental connection
Antonyms: disassociation, division, separation


 
Dental Dictionary: association

n

A connection, union, joining, or combination of things.

 
Geography Dictionary: association

plant association

A plant community unit. The term has been variously used, ranging from a large-scale area of climax vegetation to a plant community. One widely used definition of an association is a floral assemblage with a characteristic dominant and persistent species (also known as a consociation), although characteristic combinations of species may be used.

 

In psychology, the process of forming mental connections or bonds between sensations, ideas, or memories. Though discussed by the ancient Greeks (in terms of similarities, contrasts, and contiguities), the "association of ideas" was first proposed by John Locke and subsequently examined by David Hume, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and William James. Ivan Pavlov used objective methods to study the phenomenon, resulting in his identification of the conditioned reflex (see conditioning). Within psychoanalysis, the therapist encourages "free association" in order to help identify latent conflicts. Practitioners of Gestalt psychology and others have criticized associationist theories as too all-embracing, while some theorists of cognitive psychology have made it central to their theory of memory.

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[Th]

The relationship between an artefact and other archaeological finds and a site level, or other artefact, structure, or feature in the site. See closed association, spatial association, stratigraphic association.

 

1. An attentional style, which is consistent with internal focus. It is illustrated by some distance runners who tend to be very aware of their own emotions and internal body sensations, for example, how their legs feel during performance. Compare dissociation.

2. Used synonymously with correlation in descriptive statistics.

3. A form of learning that establishes the relationship between different events. The basic elements of association learning are connections between the stimulus and response. The strength of an association is influenced by the frequency with which these events are presented together. An association area in the anterior of the cerebral cortex is assumed to integrate previously stored information with incoming information. See conditioning.

 

An association is an organization of social equals agreeing to work for a common purpose or to promote a common cause. The twelve English colonies in North America applied this name to their organizations for boycotting British manufactured goods prior to the American Revolution. Merchants in the cities of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia each created formally named associations of nonimportation to protest the Stamp Act in the fall of 1765. These associations dissolved with the Stamp Act's repeal in March 1766, but reformed to protest the Townsend Acts in June 1767. On 18 May 1769, George Washington and George Mason introduced to the Virginia House of Burgesses legislation to establish a colonywide association for nonimportation. The Virginia Association called for the cultivation of crops other than tobacco, an expansion of local manufacturing, a boycott all British goods, and a refusal to accept new slaves into the colony. In the next two years, eight additional colonies created similar associations with locally elected committees of compliance and committees of correspondence. On 20 October 1774, the First Continental Congress established the Continental Association, with stiff penalties for nonobservance of the boycotts declared by Congress. Its committees often became ad hoc local governments during the Revolution.

Organizations for purposes other than boycotts also called themselves "associations." During the Revolution, ad hoc militias took the name to justify local looting and pillaging. In New Jersey, the moderately pro-British Association for Retaliation fought the more radical Board of Associated Loyalists between 1780 and 1783 as much as they did the rebels. "Association" later became a popular name for professional and other voluntary organizations in the United States. In 2001, 7,700 national organizations used the term "association," while only 2,700 used the nearly synonymous term "society."

Bibliography

Jensen, Merrill. The Founding of a Nation: A History of the American Revolution, 1763–1776. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.

Ragsdale, Bruce. A Planters' Republic: The Search for Economic Independence in Revolutionary Virginia. Madison, Wisc.: Madison House, 1996.

—Bill Olbrich

 
Columbia Encyclopedia: association,
in psychology, a connection between different sensations, feelings, or ideas by virtue of their previous occurrence together in experience. The concept of association entered contemporary psychology through the empiricist philosophers John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, and David Hartley, and the British associationist school of James Mill, John Stuart Mill, and others (see associationism). Translated into the stimulus-response terms of behaviorism, association has been thought of as the basis of learning and conditioning. Paired experience and the principle of reinforcement are often invoked to explain associative learning. However, Gestalt psychologists, who believe that association between items is dependent on their relations to each other, interpret association as an aftereffect of perceptual organization. Psychoanalysis uses a technique known as free association, in which the client expresses thoughts exactly as they occur, even though they may seem irrelevant. This procedure is designed to reveal areas of conflict and to bring into consciousness traumatic events that have been repressed, the theory being that earlier thoughts and associations can be derived from current thoughts with similar patterns of association.

Bibliography

See N. J. Mackintosh, Conditioning and Associative Learning (1983).


 
Law Dictionary: Association

"a collection of persons who have joined together for a certain object." 78 So. 693, 695. See cooperative association; freedom [freedom of association].

While a constitutional "right of association" is not expressly included in the First Amendment, its existence has been found necessary in making the Constitution's express guarantees meaningful; "the right of ‘association' is more than the right to attend a meeting; it includes the right to express one's attitudes or philosophies by membership in a group or by affiliation with it or by other lawful means." 381 U.S. 479, 483.

 

1. close relation in time or space. In neurology, correlation involving a high degree of modifiability and also consciousness. In genetics, the occurrence together of two characteristics (e.g. blood group O and peptic ulcers) at a frequency greater than would be predicted on the basis of chance.
2. in statistics an association is present if the probability of an event, or the quantity of a variable, depends on the occurrence of other events or the quantity of other variables. If the weight of evidence suggests that the changes in one of the variables causes the alteration in the other the association is said to be causal. In the reverse situation, where no such causal relationship exists, the association is said to be a noncausal one.

  • a. areas — areas of the cerebral cortex (excluding primary areas) connected with each other and with the neothalamus; they are responsible for higher mental and emotional processes, including memory, learning, etc.
  • epidemiological a. — the association between a disease and a cause.
  • a. points — in acupuncture terms all are located on the bladder meridian, along the back 1 to 1.5 inches from the midline. Called also shu points.
    Acupuncture association points. By permission from Schoen AM, Wynn SG, Pratt PW, Alternative and Complementary Therapies in Veterinary Medicine, 1997
  • a. strength (degree) — the strength of association between a disease and a cause. Is usually indicated by the relative risk.
 
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IN BRIEF: A group of people joined by a common interest or employment.

pronunciation Pete joined the gardeners' association.

 
Quotes About: Association

Quotes:

"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is." - Thomas Carlyle

"Like associates with like." - Marcus T. Cicero

"In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible." - Charles Caleb Colton

"If you want to be a winner, hang around with winners" - Christopher D. Furman

"No one should form an acquaintance with one who has an evil character. A piece of coal, if it is hot burns, and if it's cold, blackens the hands." - Hitopadesa

"We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself." - Charles Lamb

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Misspellings: association

Common misspelling(s) of association

  • assocation

 
Translations: Translations for: Association

Dansk (Danish)
n. - sammenslutning, forening

idioms:

  • association area    associationsområde

Nederlands (Dutch)
vereniging, club, omgang, associatie, natuurkundige verbinding

Français (French)
n. - association, amicale, ligue, fréquentation de, union, société, club, association (d'idées), connotations

idioms:

  • association area    (Anat) cortex radiculaire, zone de l'association

Deutsch (German)
n. - Verein, Liga, Assoziation, Verkehr

idioms:

  • association area    Bereichsvereinigung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - σύνδεσμος, εταιρία, σύλλογος, όμιλος, σωματείο, ένωση, συναναστροφή, σχέση, συνεταιρισμός, συνειρμός

idioms:

  • association area    περιοχή συνειρμικής λειτουργίας στον εγκέφαλο

Italiano (Italian)
associazione, lega, legame, relazioni

idioms:

  • association area    area associativa (cerebrale)
  • sister association    associazione sorella

Português (Portuguese)
n. - associação (f), agremiação (f), clube (m)

idioms:

  • association area    área (f) de associação
  • European Free Trade Association    Associação Européia de Livre Comércio
  • Scout Association    Associação de Escotismo
  • sister association    empresa coligada

Русский (Russian)
ассоциация, общество, клуб, лига, связь, узы, дружба

idioms:

  • association area    район/предел ассоциации
  • European Free Trade Association    Европейская Ассоциация Свободной Торговли
  • Scout Association    общество скаутов
  • sister association    общество близкое к

Español (Spanish)
n. - asociación, club, liga, sociedad, relación

idioms:

  • association area    lugar de reunión

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - förening, umgänge

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
协会, 公会, 社团, 结合, 联合, 联盟, 交往

idioms:

  • association area    联络区

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 協會, 公會, 社團, 結合, 聯合, 聯盟, 交往

idioms:

  • association area    聯絡區

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 연합 , 교제, 연상

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 協会, 組合, 連合, 交際, 連想

idioms:

  • association area    連合野
  • association of labour unions    労働組合連合
  • residents' association    自治会

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مزامله, مصادقه, مرافقه, جمعيه, اتحاد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮איגוד, התחברות, קשרים, אסוציאציה, תסמיך - קישור במוח בין רעיונות, מלים ומשמעויות, צבר לא-הדוק של פרודות‬


 
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