Association vs Relative - What's the difference?
association | relative |
The act of associating.
The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
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(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.
Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
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Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.
(grammar) That relates to an antecedent.
(music) Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.
Relevant; pertinent; related.
Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.
Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.
(linguistics) A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.
As nouns the difference between association and relative
is that association is the act of associating while relative is someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.As an adjective relative is
connected to or depending on something else; comparative.association
English
(wikipedia association)Noun
(en noun)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?}}
Derived terms
* guilt by associationrelative
English
Adjective
(-)Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, BBC Sport:
- For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
- ''The relative URL /images/pic.jpg, when evaluated in the context of http&
- x3A;//example.com/docs/pic.html, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg.
- relative to your earlier point about taxes, ...
Synonyms
* comparative * conditional * limitedAntonyms
* absolute * unlimitedDerived terms
* relative toNoun
(en noun)- Why do my relatives always talk about sex?
