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Admixture vs Association - What's the difference?

admixture | association | Related terms |

Admixture is a related term of association.


As nouns the difference between admixture and association

is that admixture is an instance of admixing, a mixing-in of something while association is the act of associating.

admixture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An instance of admixing, a mixing-in of something.
  • The admixture of vanilla extract in the dough improved the pastries' flavor.
  • # A mixing-in of a biologically or genetically differentiated group to an established stock.
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  • A mixture, in some contexts
  • # (epilepsy) a mixture composed of entities retaining their individual properties.
  • Background EEG demonstrates an admixture of theta and delta waves.
  • association

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of associating.
  • The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=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?}}
  • (statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
  • A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
  • Derived terms

    * guilt by association