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classification

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French classification

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /?klæs?f??ke???n/
  • Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

classification (countable and uncountable, plural classifications)

  1. The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
    • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN
      I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order
      And there is also taxinomia a principle of 'classification' and ordered tabulation.
      Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
      Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

Derived terms

  • classification scheme
  • classification yard

Related terms

  • class
  • classic
  • classify
  • category
  • categorize
  • segment

Translations

Further reading

  • classification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • classification in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • classification at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

classe +? -ification

Pronunciation

Noun

classification f (plural classifications)

  1. classification

Further reading

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

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association

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).

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