association
英[?s??s?'e??(?)n;-??-]
美[?,so??'e??n]
- n. 協會，聯盟，社團；聯合；聯想
英英釋意
- 1. a formal organization of people or groups of people;
- "he joined the Modern Language Association"
- 2. the act of consorting with or joining with others;
- "you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association"
- 3. the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination;
- "his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break"
- 4. a social or business relationship;
- "a valuable financial affiliation"
- "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team"
- "many close associations with England"
- 5. the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination;
- "conditioning is a form of learning by association"
- 6. 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"
- 7. (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
- 8. (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species