Association

Deutsch: Association / Español: Asociación / Français: Association / Italiano: Associazione

The term association may refer to any of the following:

Voluntary association (also voluntary group, voluntary organization, unincorporated association, common-interest association), a group of individuals who enter into an agreement as volunteers to form an organization in order to accomplish a specific purpose
501(c) organization, a tax-exempt non-profit organization, as outlined in the United States Internal Revenue Code
Alumni association, an association of former students of a particular university, college, school, fraternity or sorority
Professional association (also professional body, professional organization, professional society), a non-profit organization seeking to further a particular profession, the interests of professionals in that field, and public interest

Trade association (also industry trade group, business association, sector association), an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry
Sports association (also sports club, athletics club, sports society), a club for the purpose of playing one or more sports
Association, in astronomy, a combined group of astronomical exposures from which cosmic rays have been removed
Association, in ecology, a type of community with a predictable species composition and consistent structural appearance which occurs in a particular type of habitat
Association, in object-oriented programming, defines a relationship between classes of objects that allows one instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf

Association, in psychology, a connection between conceptual entities or mental states that results from the similarity or proximity in space and time of those states
Association, in statistics, any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent
Archeological association, a close relationship between objects or contexts
Genetic association, a non-random occurrence of two or more traits in a population of individuals, of which at least one is known to be genetic in nature
File association, the association of a file or class of files with a corresponding application or program capable of viewing or editing such files
Security association, the establishment of shared security attributes between two entities in a network to support secure communication
Free association (also free association of producers, community of freely associated individuals), a relationship among individuals where the concepts of state, social class, authority, and private property are non-existent in the context of means production
Continental Association, a system created by the First Continental Congress (of what would later become the United States) in 1774 for implementing a trade boycott with Great Britain
HMS Association, a ship of the British Royal Navy that sank in 1707
L'Association, a French comic book publishing house
The Association, an American folk rock or soft rock band in the 1960;s

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