association

IPA: ʌsoʊsiˈeɪʃʌn

(uncountable) The act of associating.
(countable) The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
(statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
(object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
(Philippines, Chinese Filipino) A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname or trade or business.

Examples of "association" in Sentences

A word association with streaming media leaps to mind: screaming meemies.
For example, say the relationship bird→airplane had a word association value of 11.
During workshops we regularly ask sales draftees to play a word association game around the term "salesperson."
Or, for that matter, why would it translate into more difficulty in breaking away from a baseball-related solution in the word association task or figuring out that a tack box, if emptied, can be used as a support device?
First of all, then, the validity of the argument depends upon the probability there is that the constant associated of Mind with Matter within experience is due to a _causal_ connection; for if the association in question is merely an _association_ and nothing more, the origin of known mind is as far from being explained as it would be were