Association may refer to:
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Club (organization)
A club is an association of people united by a common interest or goal. A service club, for example, exists for voluntary or charitable activities. There are clubs devoted to hobbies and sports, social activities clubs, political and religious ...
, an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal
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Trade association
A trade association, also known as an industry trade group, business association, sector association or industry body, is an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry. An industry trade association partic ...
, an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry
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Voluntary association
A voluntary group or union (also sometimes called a voluntary organization, common-interest association, association, or society) is a group of individuals who enter into an agreement, usually as volunteers, to form a body (or organization) to ac ...
, a body formed by individuals to accomplish a purpose, usually as volunteers
Association in various fields of study
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Association (archaeology), the close relationship between objects or contexts.
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Association (astronomy)
An association (astronomy) is a combined or co-added group of astronomical exposures from which cosmic rays have been removed. WFPC2 associations constitute one type of association and are tools in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archive for us ...
, combined or co-added group of astronomical exposures
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Association (chemistry)
Dissociation in chemistry is a general process in which molecules (or ionic compounds such as salts, or complexes) separate or split into other things such as atoms, ions, or radicals, usually in a reversible manner. For instance, when an aci ...
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Association (ecology), a type of ecological community
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Genetic association
Genetic association is when one or more genotypes within a population co-occur with a phenotypic trait more often than would be expected by chance occurrence.
Studies of genetic association aim to test whether single-locus alleles or genotype fre ...
, when one or more genotypes within a population co-occur
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Association (object-oriented programming) In object-oriented programming, association defines a relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf. This relationship is structural, because it specifies that objects of ...
, defines a relationship between classes of objects
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Association (psychology), a connection between two or more concepts in the mind or imagination
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Association (statistics), a statistical relationship between two variables
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File association, associates a file with a software application
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Security association, the establishment of security attributes between two communication networks
Particular entities
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Continental Association
The Continental Association, also known as the Articles of Association or simply the Association, was an agreement among the American colonies adopted by the First Continental Congress on October 20, 1774. It called for a trade boycott against B ...
, often called the "Association", an economic boycott during the American Revolution
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HMS ''Association'' (1697), a Royal Navy ship which sank in 1707
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L'Association
L'Association is a French publishing house located in Paris which publishes comic books. It was founded in May 1990 by Jean-Christophe Menu, Lewis Trondheim, David B., Mattt Konture, Patrice Killoffer, Stanislas, and Mokeït.
L'Associatio ...
, a French comic book publisher
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The Association
The Association is an American sunshine pop band from California. During the late 1960s, the band had numerous hits at or near the top of the ''Billboard'' charts (including " Windy", " Cherish", " Never My Love" and " Along Comes Mary") a ...
, an American soft rock band
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''The Association'' (album), 1969
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Associate (disambiguation)
Associate may refer to:
Academics
* Associate degree, a two-year educational degree in the United States, and some areas of Canada
* Associate professor, an academic rank at a college or university
* Technical associate or Senmonshi, a Japan ...
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Free association (disambiguation) Free association may refer to:
*Free association (psychology), a technique of psychoanalysis devised by Sigmund Freud
* Free association (Marxism and anarchism), where there is no state, social class, authority, or private ownership of means of pr ...
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Associative property
In mathematics, the associative property is a property of some binary operations, which means that rearranging the parentheses in an expression will not change the result. In propositional logic, associativity is a valid rule of replaceme ...
in mathematics
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Interpersonal relationship
The concept of interpersonal relationship involves social associations, connections, or affiliations between two or more people. Interpersonal relationships vary in their degree of intimacy or self-disclosure, but also in their duration, in t ...
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Friendship
Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people. It is a stronger form of interpersonal bond than an "acquaintance" or an "association", such as a classmate, neighbor, coworker, or colleague.
In some cultures, the concept of ...
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Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
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Registered association (Germany) (An ''eingetragener Verein'')
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