association

English

Etymology

From Latin associātiō, from associāre (perhaps via French association).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃən/, /əˌsəʊsiˈeɪʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/, /əˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

association (countable and uncountable, plural associations)

1. The act of associating.
2. The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
   • 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?

3. (statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
4. A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
5. (object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.

Derived terms

• guilt by association

Related terms

• associate verb
• associational adj

Translations

act of associating

• Catalan: associació (ca) f
• Esperanto: asociigo
• Finnish: liittyminen (fi), järjestäytyminen, yhdistyminen (fi), yhtyminen (fi); seurustelu (fi), yhdessäolo, seuranpito; liittoutuminen, ystävystyminen (fi), yhteen liittyminen; liittäminen (fi), yhdistäminen (fi); assosiaatio, mielleyhtymä (fi)
• Hungarian: társítás, asszociáció (hu)
• Japanese: 連想 (ja) (rensō), 関連付け (kanrenzuke)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: assosiasjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: assosiasjon m

• Polish: współpraca (pl) f
• Portuguese: associação (pt) f, associamento m
• Romanian: asociere (ro) f
• Russian: объедине́ние (ru) n (obʺjedinénije), соедине́ние (ru) n (sojedinénije)
• Spanish: asociación (es) f
• Swedish: association (sv) c, koppling (sv) c

state of being associated; connection to or an affiliation with something

• Catalan: associació (ca) f
• Dutch: associatie (nl) f, verbinding (nl) f
• Finnish: jäsenyys (fi), järjestyneisyys, järjestäytyneisyys; yhdessäolo, seuranpito; toveruus (fi), kaveruus, kumppanuus (fi), liittolaisuus (fi), ystävyys (fi); yhteys (fi), yhdistyneisyys; yhdistäminen (fi), assosiaatio
• Hungarian: társítás, asszociáció (hu)
• Irish: comhchaidreamh m

• Portuguese: associação (pt) f
• Romanian: asociere (ro) f, asociație (ro) f
• Russian: объедине́ние (ru) n (obʺjedinénije), соедине́ние (ru) n (sojedinénije)
• Spanish: asociación (es) f
• Swedish: association (sv) c, koppling (sv) c

group of persons associated for a common purpose

• Catalan: associació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 協會 (zh), 协会 (zh) (xiéhuì)

• Czech: sdružení (cs) n, asociace f
• Dutch: vereniging (nl) f
• Esperanto: asociiĝo
• Finnish: järjestö (fi), yhdistys (fi)
• French: association (fr) f
• German: Verein (de) m, Verband (de) m, Assoziation (de) f
• Greek: σύνδεσμος (el) m (sýndesmos)
• Hausa: ƙungiya (ha)
• Hungarian: egyesület (hu), társulat (hu)
• Indonesian: asosiasi (id)
• Irish: cumann m
• Japanese: 協会 (ja) (kyōkai)

• Ladino: asosiasion
• Malay: persatuan (ms)
• Maltese: assoċjazzjoni f
• Manx: commyn m
• Ngazidja Comorian: shama class 5/6
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forening (no) m, f

  Nynorsk: foreining f

• Polish: związek (pl) m, stowarzyszenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: associação (pt) f, organização (pt) f
• Romanian: asociație (ro) f
• Russian: ассоциа́ция (ru) f (associácija), объедине́ние (ru) n (obʺjedinénije), сою́з (ru) m (sojúz), соо́бщество (ru) n (soóbščestvo), това́рищество (ru) n (továriščestvo)
• Swedish: förening (sv) c, sammanslutning (sv) c, sällskap (sv) n, förbund (sv) n, klubb (sv) c, kår (sv) c
• Tagalog: kapisanan

OOP

• French: association (fr) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} asociacion (sq)
• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} [script needed] (cemiyet)
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} асоциация (bg) (asociacija), ^{(please verify)} съюз (bg) (sǎjuz), ^{(please verify)} общество (bg) (obštestvo)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} asocio
• French: ^{(please verify)} association (fr)

• German: ^{(please verify)} Vereinigung (de)
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} התקשרות‏‎ (hitkashrut) (1,2)
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} asociuro (io)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} associazione (it) f
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} dernek (tr), ^{(please verify)} cemiyet (tr)

See also

• alliance
• coalition
• league
• union

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French

Etymology

From associer.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /a.sɔ.sja.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

association f (plural associations)

1. association, society, group
2. (commercial, economic) partnership
3. association (of related terms, ideas etc.), combination
4. (object-oriented programming) association

Further reading

• “association” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).