Other forms: associations
An association is an organised group, or a link between ideas. The residents' association, an association of ideas, guilt by association.
In statistics it has a strict meaning, and the warning that goes with it is the most repeated sentence in the field: association is not causation, because a third thing may cause both. Association football is where the word soccer came from.
1nounassociationAn organised group.
“She joined the local residents' association to help improve the neighbourhood.”
2nounlinkA link between ideas or things.
“For me, the song has happy associations with our summer holidays.”
association is a group, or a link.
Latin associatio comes from associare, to join to, from ad plus socius, a companion.
Latin
associātiō
English, today
association
Borrowed from Latin associātiō. From Latin associātiō, from associō (perhaps via French association). Morphologically associate + ion. The Philippine sense is a Spanish gremio.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA