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What is the noun for association?

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associate
  1. A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner.
  2. Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
  3. A companion; a comrade.
  4. One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
  5. A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
  6. (algebra) One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit).
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “As an associate of the mob, he pulled off some of the biggest heists in history.”
association
  1. The act of associating.
  2. The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
  3. (statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
  4. A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
  5. (object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Attendees decided to form an association to represent all community workers, regardless of their field of practice.”
      “Other than having similar names, there is no association between the two companies.”
      “But it is not until the autumn of 1794 that we find positive evidence of his association with members of the latter sect.”
associationist
  1. (philosophy) One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas.
  2. (psychology) A proponent of associationism.
  3. (Islam) a mushrik; one who ascribes partners to Allah (God) or believes in the Trinity. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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  5. Examples:
    1. “He analyzes various traditions of nineteenth-century associationist psychiatry in remarkably original terms.”
      “He objects to both the associationist and Darwinian approaches to the understanding of mind.”
      “It is rare to find an associationist who is a nativist, but plenty of nativists have aspects of associationism in their own work.”
associanism
  1. An adaptation of Fourierism to a democratic capitalist economy.
  2. (psychology) An approach to psychology that predates behaviorism and that explains behavior in terms of learned associations.
associator
  1. A person who or thing that associates.
  2. (algebra) A multilinear map, given by [x, y, z] = xy(z) − x(yz), that measures the degree of nonassociativity of a ring or algebra.
  3. Examples:
    1. “In this case, it is a pattern associator type network making use of backpropagation for it's learning rule.”
      “A pattern associator can be trained to respond with a certain output pattern when presented with an input pattern.”
      “The associator and memory subsystems form the learning process and the storage of information for use at a later time.”
associativity
  1. (algebra) The condition of being associative.
  2. (programming) The property of an operator which determines how it is grouped with operators of the same precedence in the absence of parentheses.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The integration of the two is quite good with regard to overall function and bidirectional data associativity.”
      “Using the associativity shortcut, subtracting or dividing first, can simplify problem solving significantly.”
      “While this is the content of associativity, for ease of processing associativity is almost always expressed as a symbol-manipulation rule.”
associationism
  1. (psychology) A theory that association (of experiences etc) is the basis of consciousness and mental activity
  2. Examples:
    1. “The Romantic conception of the self was an outgrowth of Kant's critique of associationism.”
      “Pavlov's paradigm physicalized associationism, turning its content into something more measurable while preserving its associative form intact.”
      “Psychological behaviorism is associationism without appeal to mental events.”
associableness
  1. The state or quality of being associable.
associatedness
  1. The state or quality of being associated.
associateship
  1. The rank or period of being an associate.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “She explained that to achieve her associateship, she had to put together a presentation for a panel of judges.”
      “It is understood that the fourth year is to be employed in research in the subject of the associateship.”
      “The institute started awarding diplomas for the associateship of IVRI in 1943 as a part of post-graduate teaching programme.”
associativeness
  1. (mathematics) The condition of being associative
associability
  1. The condition of being associable
  2. Examples:
    1. “A milieu deeply penetrated by interpersonal distrust forestalls the development of associability and mass membership in associations.”
      “Decreases in associability that occur as a stimulus is found to have either no consequence or a consistent consequence, are affected by manipulations of the hippocampus.”
      “These results indicate that learned predictiveness effects in human causal learning index an associability that is specific to a particular class of outcomes.”
associationisms
  1. plural of associationism
associationists
  1. plural of associationist
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Not all behavioral associationists, to be sure, shared Skinner's disdain for theory.”
associateships
associativities
  1. plural of associativity
  2. Examples:
    1. “Second, the standard domain-specific notation you're recreating in your Perl class must conform to the Perlish precedences and associativities.”
associations
  1. plural of association
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Religious groups, political parties, ethnic associations, trade unions and student bodies were represented.”
      “It may be obtained through trade journals, business associations, academic institutions and vocational groups.”
      “More and more medical associations have set up registers for members to list interests that concern their employment or practice.”
associators
  1. plural of associator
  2. Examples:
    1. “Uncertain of the meaning of reduction, pioneers, provincial, convention, associators, fencible or establishment?”
associates
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