Look up: association

1. association
   Type: Term Pronunciation: ă-sō′sē-ā′shŭn Definitions: 1. A connection of people, things, or ideas by some common factor. 2. A functional connection of two ideas, events, or psychological phenomena established through learning or experience. 3. Statistical depende...
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2. 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: ...
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3. 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 using data from the Wide Field and Pl...
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4. association
   (also "Law of Association"). the joint occurrence of artifacts in a sealed natural or cultural unit such as stratum, tomb, grave or cache . It is often assumed that such artifacts were deposited at the same time by people of the same culture .
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5. Association
   Major unit in community ecology, characterised by essential uniformity of species composition.
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6. association
   [n] - the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination 2. [n] - a relation resulting from interaction or dependence 3. [n] - (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding 4. [n] - a formal organiza...
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7. Association
   The linking of two concepts within semantic memory, usually by contiguity. The fact that association occurs so readily probably indicates that the power to associate by contiguity is another basic neural process, second only to abstraction in importance, and allowing yet more regularities in the ext
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8. Association
   The process of 'connecting' to an access point, which provides a WLAN client access to the wireless and wired networks of an access point. A WLAN client must also successfully authenticate via the access point before it can access the network(s).
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9. Association
   The tendency for two things to occur together.
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10. association
    The assembling of separate molecular entities into any aggregate, especially of oppositely charged free ions into ion pairs or larger and not necessarily well-defined clusters of ions held together by electrostatic attraction. The term signifies the reverse of dissociation, but is not commonly used ...
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11. Association
    As in a memory, looking through your own eyes, hearing what you heard, and feeling the feelings as if you were actually there. This is called the associated state.
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12. Association
    see correlation
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13. Association
    Association: 1. In dysmorphology (the study of birth defects), the nonrandom occurrence in two or more individuals of a pattern of multiple anomalies (birth defects) not known to be a malformation syndrome (such as Down syndrome), a malformation sequence (of events) or what is called a polytopic fie...
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14. association
    in the most general sense,the degree of dependence,or independence,which exists between two or more variates whether they be measured quantitatively or qualitatively.More narrowly,the term is mostly used to denote the relationship between variates which are simply dichotomised,namely 2 X 2 table as ...
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15. association
    A link between a file and a program which allows the user to double-click on the file to open the file and load the program at the same time. The operating system reads the file extension which tells it which program is associated with the file, and so needs to be loaded.
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16. Association
    As·so`ci·a'tion noun [ Confer French association , Late Latin associatio , from Latin associare .] 1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. 'Some . . . bond o...
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17. association
    1. <neurology> Correlation involving a high degree of modifiability and also consciousness. ... 2. <genetics> The occurrence together of two or more phenotypic characteristics more often than would be expected by change. To be distinguished from linkage. ... 3. In dysmorphology, the nonr...
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18. association
    noun a formal organization of people or groups of people; `he joined the Modern Language Association`
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19. association
    noun the act of consorting with or joining with others; `you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association`
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20. association
    connection noun the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; `conditioning is a form of learning by association`
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21. association
    noun (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
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22. association
    noun a relation resulting from interaction or dependence; `flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear`; `the host is not always injured by association with a parasite`
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23. association
    (ә-so″se-a´shәn) a state in which two attributes occur together either more or less often than expected by chance. in neurology, a term applied to those regions of the brain (association areas) that link the primary motor and sensory areas. in genetics, the occurrence together of ...
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24. Association
    • (n.) Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring...
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25. association
    (from the article `conifer`) The fine feeding roots of conifers, like those of many flowering plants, do not work alone. They get a boost in their work by associating with ...
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