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Association vs Organizations - What's the difference?

association | organizations |

As nouns the difference between association and organizations

is that association is the act of associating while organizations is .

association

English

(wikipedia association)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of associating.
  • The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
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    • , 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

    Related terms

    * associate (pos v) * associational (pos a)

    organizations

    English

    Alternative forms

    * organisations (note: many in the Commonwealth, especially Canadians, as well as Oxford University Press and many British publishers prefer the 'z'-spelling.)

    Noun

    (head)