Association
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Association may refer to:
Associations in various fields of study:
Names of particular entities or things:
- Voluntary associationVoluntary associationA voluntary association or union is a group of individuals who enter into an agreement as volunteers to form a body to accomplish a purpose.Strictly speaking, in many jurisdictions no formalities are necessary to start an association...
s, groups of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement to accomplish a purpose- 501(c) non-profit organization
- Alumni associationAlumni associationAn alumni association is an association of graduates or, more broadly, of former students. In the United Kingdom and the United States, alumni of universities, colleges, schools , fraternities, and sororities often form groups with alumni from the same organisation...
, an association of former students of a college or university - Professional association
- Sports association
- Trade associationTrade associationA trade association, also known as an industry trade group, business association or sector association, is an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry...
, another name of an industry trade group
Associations in various fields of study:
- Archaeological associationArchaeological associationAssociation in archaeology has more than one meaning and is confusing to the layman. Archaeology has been critiqued as a soft science with a somewhat poor standardization of terms.-Finds and objects:...
, in archaeology, the relationship between objects found together - Association (astronomy)Association (astronomy)An association 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 archive for using data from the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 . Associations...
, combined or co-added group of astronomical exposures - Association (chemistry)
- Association (ecology)Association (ecology)An association is the "ultimate classification level" of ecological systems. Local conditions permit several understory species to coexist with the same overstory dominants, and associations refer to the many co-occurring species rather than just the few dominant ones.Associations have:#A...
- Association (object-oriented programming)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...
, a kind of grouping in object-oriented programming - Association (psychology)Association (psychology)In psychology and marketing, two concepts or stimuli are associated when the experience of one leads to the effects of another, due to repeated pairing. This is sometimes called Pavlovian association for Ivan Pavlov's pioneering of classical conditioning....
, a connection between two or more concepts in the mind or imagination - Association (statistics)Association (statistics)In statistics, an association is any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent. The term "association" refers broadly to any such relationship, whereas the narrower term "correlation" refers to a linear relationship between two quantities.There are many...
- Free association of producers, the goal of anarchists and communists
Names of particular entities or things:
- Continental Association, often called the "Association", an economic boycott during the American Revolution
- HMS Association (1697), a Royal Navy ship which sank in 1707
- L'AssociationL'AssociationL'Association is a French publishing house 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, who left soon thereafter...
, a French comic book publisher - The AssociationThe AssociationThe Association is a pop music band from California in the folk rock or soft rock genre. During the 1960s, they had numerous hits at or near the top of the Billboard charts and were the lead-off band at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival...
, a pop band