associationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin associātiō, from associō (perhaps via French association). Morphologically associate +‎ -ion.
The Philippine sense is a calque of Spanish gremio.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃn̩/, /əˌsəʊsiˈeɪʃn̩/
• (General American) IPA: /əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/, /əˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

association (countable and uncountable, plural associations)

1. (uncountable) The act of associating.
   • 1970, Aristotle, translated by Benjamin Jowett, Politics, page I.2,1253a15-20:

     And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state.

2. (countable) The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Fête at Sir Robert Walpole’s Continued”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 39:

     "Well," exclaimed Lady Marchmont, breathing the perfume with which a honeysuckle, wound around an old ash, filled the air, "I do confess that I like common flowers better than any. The hothouse plant has no associations."

   • 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist‎, 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 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.
6. (Philippines, Chinese Filipino) A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname, geographical origin, location, trade or business.

   Synonym: kongsi (Singapore; Malaysia; Indonesia)

同意語

• (state of being associated): connection; See also Thesaurus:relation
• ass'n (abbreviation)

派生語

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参考

• alliance
• coalition
• league
• union
• guild
• clan