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.

Noun

(en noun)

A socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people.

(anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.

The collective noun for various animals.

(taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.

(stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.

the Duchess tribe of shorthorns