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Collaboration vs Association - What's the difference?

collaboration | association |

As nouns the difference between association and collaboration

is that association is the act of associating while collaboration is the act of collaborating.

collaboration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncountable) The act of collaborating.
  • Collaboration can be a useful part of the creative process.
  • (countable) A production or creation made by collaborating.
  • The husband-and-wife artists will release their new collaboration in June this year.
  • (uncountable) Treasonous cooperation.
  • He has been charged with collaboration .

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    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