- an organization of people with a common purpose and having a formal structure.
- the act of associating or state of being associated.
- friendship; companionship: Their close association did not last long.
- connection or combination.
- the connection or relation of ideas, feelings, sensations, etc.; correlation of elements of perception, reasoning, or the like.
- an idea, image, feeling, etc., suggested by or connected with something other than itself; an accompanying thought, emotion, or the like; an overtone or connotation: My associations with that painting are of springlike days.
- a group of plants of one or more species living together under uniform environmental conditions and having a uniform and distinctive aspect.
- a weak form of chemical bonding involving aggregation of molecules of the same compound.
- touch football.
- stellar association.
- a group of people having a common purpose or interest; a society or club
- the act of associating or the state of being associated
- friendship or companionship
- a mental connection of ideas, feelings, or sensations
- the mental process of linking ideas so that the recurrence of one idea automatically recalls the other
- the formation of groups of molecules and ions, esp in liquids, held together by weak chemical bonds
- a group of similar plants that grow in a uniform environment and contain one or more dominant species
