Association may refer to:
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Club (organization)
A club is an voluntary association, 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, po ...
, 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 (economics), industry. An industry tra ...
, an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry
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Voluntary association, 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), 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 acid ...
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Association (ecology), a type of ecological community
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Genetic association, when one or more genotypes within a population co-occur
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Association (object-oriented programming), 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 In computing, a file association associates a file with an application software, application capable of opening that file. More commonly, a file association associates a class of files (usually determined by their filename extension, such as .txt) w ...
, 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, 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, a French comic book publisher
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The Association, an American soft rock band
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''The Association'' (album), 1969
See also
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Associate (disambiguation)
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Free association (disambiguation)
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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 replacemen ...
in mathematics
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Interpersonal relationship
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Friendship
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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 t ...
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Registered association (Germany) (An ''eingetragener Verein'')
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