association
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin associātiō, from associō (perhaps via French association). Morphologically associate + -ion
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃən/, /əˌsəʊsiˈeɪʃən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/, /əˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃən/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun[edit]
association (countable and uncountable, plural associations)
- The act of associating.
- The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
- 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 3, page 39:
- "Well," exclaimed Lady Marchmont, breathing the perfume with which a honeysuckle, wound around an old ash, filled the air, "I do confess that I like common flowers better than any. The hothouse plant has no associations."
- 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, page 164:
- 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?
- (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.
Synonyms[edit]
- (state of being associated): connection; See also Thesaurus:relation
- ass'n (abbreviation)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- associate (verb)
- associational (adjective)
Translations[edit]
act of associating
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state of being associated; connection to or an affiliation with something
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group of persons associated for a common purpose
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Danish[edit]
Noun[edit]
association c (singular definite associationen, plural indefinite associationer)
- association
- 2007, Drømmenes dimensioner, Gyldendal A/S (→ISBN), page 83
- Børn blokerer desuden ofte for associationer af angst for drømmeindholdet.
- Furthermore, children often block associations of anxiety for the dream content.
- Børn blokerer desuden ofte for associationer af angst for drømmeindholdet.
- 2014, Klaus Kjøller, Sprogets Vej til Sindets Fred, 2. rev. vej, nu med Dit og Dat, KJOELLER.dk (→ISBN)
- I stedet for det dagligsproglige 'tilintetgørelse', som kan rumme negative associationer af ødelæggelse og brutalitet, benytter vi på Sprogets Vej det pluskorrigerede udtryk 'ophævelse'.
- Instead of the everyday word "annihilation", which may contain negative associations of destruction and brutality, we use, on the Way of Language, the plus-corrected [?] expression "cancellation".
- I stedet for det dagligsproglige 'tilintetgørelse', som kan rumme negative associationer af ødelæggelse og brutalitet, benytter vi på Sprogets Vej det pluskorrigerede udtryk 'ophævelse'.
- 2002, Anne Ring Petersen, Storbyens billeder: fra industrialisme til informationsalder, Museum Tusculanum Press (→ISBN), page 113
- ... vil de, skriver Allouay, fortrinsvis vække associationer af urban karakter.
- ... they will, Allouay writes, predominantly arouse associations of an urban/urbane character.
- ... vil de, skriver Allouay, fortrinsvis vække associationer af urban karakter.
- 1999, Bogens verden
- ... hvert sted åbner der sig en verden af formrigdom, af mulige associationer, af historier og sammenhænge, som kan foldes ud af det banale.
- ... everywhere, a world of shape-wealth, of possible associations, of stories and connections that can be unfolded from banality opens.
- ... hvert sted åbner der sig en verden af formrigdom, af mulige associationer, af historier og sammenhænge, som kan foldes ud af det banale.
- 2007, Drømmenes dimensioner, Gyldendal A/S (→ISBN), page 83
- group of persons united for some purpose
Declension[edit]
Declension of association
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | association | associationen | associationer | associationerne |
genitive | associations | associationens | associationers | associationernes |
Further reading[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
association f (plural associations)
- association, society, group
- (commerce, economics) partnership
- association (of related terms, ideas etc.), combination
- (object-oriented programming) association
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Romanian: asociație
Further reading[edit]
- “association”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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