association




association - noun

  • a formal organization of people or groups of people
  • the act of consorting with or joining with others
  • the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination
  • the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
  • a social or business relationship
  • a relation resulting from interaction or dependence
  • (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
  • (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 - thesaurus

    affiliation   connection   connexion   tie