- Association
Association may refer to:
*Voluntary association , a group of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement to accomplish a purpose
**501(c) non-profit organization
**Professional association
**Alumni association , an association of former students of a college or university
** An industry trade group is also known as atrade association Associations in various fields of study:
*Association (statistics) , comes from two variables that are related
*Association (psychology) , something linked in memory or imagination with a thing or person
*Archaeological association , in archaeology, the relationship between objects found together
*Association (ecology) , a set of organisms which appear together and cover areas in a roughly uniform way
*Association (astronomy) , combined or co-added group of astronomical exposures
*Genetic association
*Association (object-oriented programming) , in object-oriented programming, a relationship between classesNames of particular entities or things:
*The Association , a pop band
*HMS "Association", a Royal Navy ship which sank in 1707
*L'Association , a Frenchcomic book publisher
*Continental Association , often called the "Association", an economic boycott during the American Revolutionee also
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