associationとは

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃən/, /əˌsəʊsiˈeɪʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/, /əˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

association (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 associations)

1. The act of associating.
2. The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
   • 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 164:

     Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?

3. (statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal または 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.

同意語

• (state of being associated): connection; See also Thesaurus:relation

派生語

• guilt by association

関連する語

参考

• alliance
• coalition
• league
• union