different between association vs amalgam

English

Etymology

From Latin associ?ti?, from associ? (perhaps via French association).Morphologically associate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??s???i?e???n/, /??s??si?e???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??so??i?e???n/, /??so?si?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

association (countable and uncountable, plural associations)

1. The act of associating.
2. The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
3. (statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
4. A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
5. (object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.

Synonyms

• (state of being associated): connection; See also Thesaurus:relation
• ass'n (abbreviation)

Derived terms

• guilt by association

Related terms

Translations

See also

• alliance
• coalition
• league
• union

Danish

Noun

association c (singular definite associationen, plural indefinite associationer)

1. association
   • 2007, Drømmenes dimensioner, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN), page 83

     Børn blokerer desuden ofte for associationer af angst for drømmeindholdet.

     Furthermore, children often block associations of anxiety for the dream content.

   • 2014, Klaus Kjøller, Sprogets Vej til Sindets Fred, 2. rev. vej, nu med Dit og Dat, KJOELLER.dk (?ISBN)

     I stedet for det dagligsproglige 'tilintetgørelse', som kan rumme negative associationer af ødelæggelse og brutalitet, benytter vi på Sprogets Vej det pluskorrigerede udtryk 'ophævelse'.

     Instead of the everyday word "annihilation", which may contain negative associations of destruction and brutality, we use, on the Way of Language, the plus-corrected [?] expression "cancellation".

   • 2002, Anne Ring Petersen, Storbyens billeder: fra industrialisme til informationsalder, Museum Tusculanum Press (?ISBN), page 113

     ... vil de, skriver Allouay, fortrinsvis vække associationer af urban karakter.

     ... they will, Allouay writes, predominantly arouse associations of an urban/urbane character.

   • 1999, Bogens verden

     ... hvert sted åbner der sig en verden af formrigdom, af mulige associationer, af historier og sammenhænge, som kan foldes ud af det banale.

     ... everywhere, a world of shape-wealth, of possible associations, of stories and connections that can be unfolded from banality opens.

2. group of persons united for some purpose

Declension

Further reading

• “association” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From associer +? -tion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.s?.sja.sj??/
• Homophone: associations

Noun

association f (plural associations)

1. association, society, group
2. (commerce, economics) partnership
3. association (of related terms, ideas etc.), combination
4. (object-oriented programming) association

Derived terms

• association libre

Descendants

• ? Romanian: asocia?ie

Further reading

• “association” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin amalgama (“mercury alloy”), from Arabic ???????????? (al-mal?am, “emollient poultice or unguent for sores”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (málagma, “emollient; malleable material”), from ??????? (maláss?, “to soften”), from ??????? (malakós, “soft”). Doublet of malagma. For the verb, compare French amalgamer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mæl.??m/
• Hyphenation: a?mal?gam

Noun

amalgam (countable and uncountable, plural amalgams)

1. (metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury.
2. A combination of different things.
3. One of the ingredients in an alloy.

Synonyms

• alloy, blend, combo, compound, conglomerate, mixture

Related terms

• amalgamate
• amalgamation

Translations

Verb

amalgam (third-person singular simple present amalgams, present participle amalgaming, simple past and past participle amalgamed)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To amalgamate.
   • a. 1691, Robert Boyle, An Essay on the Porousness of Solid Bodies

     I had once occasion to distill in a small retort some gold amalgamed with such a fine and subtile mercur

   • 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

     gold t'amalgam with some six of mercury

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “amalgam”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Amalgam”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “amalgam”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.
• “amalgam”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• malagma

Romanian

Etymology

From French amalgame, from Latin amalgama.

Noun

amalgam n (plural amalgame)

1. amalgam

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /am?l?a?m/
• Hyphenation: a?mal?gam

Noun

amàlg?m m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. amalgam

Declension

Swedish

Noun

amalgam n

1. amalgam

Declension