association
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3. a. A mental connection or relation between thoughts, feelings, ideas, or sensations. b. A remembered or imagined feeling, emotion, idea, or sensation linked to a person, object, or idea.
4. Chemistry. Any of various processes of combination, such as hydration, solvation, or complex-ion formation, depending on relatively weak chemical bonding.
5. Ecology. A large number of organisms in a specific geographic area constituting a community with one or two dominant species.
associa