<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an organization of people with a common purpose and having a formal structure.</li><li>the act of associating or state of being associated.</li><li>friendship; companionship.</li><li>connection or combination.</li><li>the connection or relation of ideas, feelings, sensations, etc.; correlation of elements of perception, reasoning, or the like.</li><li>an idea, image, feeling, etc., suggested by or connected with something other than itself; an accompanying thought, emotion, or the like; an overtone or connotation.</li><li>Ecology: a group of plants of one or more species living together under uniform environmental conditions and having a uniform and distinctive aspect.</li><li>Chemistry: a weak form of chemical bonding involving aggregation of molecules of the same compound.</li><li>touch football.</li><li>Astronomy: stellar association.</li></ul>