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Group vs. Association — What's the Difference?

Group vs. Association — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Group and Association

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Group

An assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together; an aggregation
A group of dinner guests.
A group of buildings near the road.

Association

The act of associating or being connected with
My parents disapproved of my association with my friends from across town.

Group

A set of two or more figures that make up a unit or design, as in sculpture.

Association

An organized body of people who have an interest, activity, or purpose in common; a society.

Group

A number of individuals or things considered or classed together because of similarities
A small group of supporters across the country.
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Association

A mental connection or relation between thoughts, feelings, ideas, or sensations
My therapist helped me examine my association of food with comfort.

Group

(Linguistics) A category of related languages that is less inclusive than a family.

Association

The act of expressing a link or connection between two things
"The media's association of visa overstayers with illegality is so strong and common as to shape public attitudes towards them" (Junya Morooka).

Group

A military unit consisting of two or more battalions and a headquarters.

Association

A correlation or causal connection
There is a definite association of exercise with improved health.

Group

A unit of two or more squadrons in the US Air Force, smaller than a wing.

Association

(Chemistry) Any of various processes of combination, such as hydration, solvation, or complex-ion formation, depending on relatively weak chemical bonding.

Group

Two or more atoms behaving or regarded as behaving as a single chemical unit.

Association

(Ecology) A large number of organisms in a specific geographic area constituting a community with one or two dominant species.

Group

A column in the periodic table of the elements.

Association

(uncountable) The act of associating.

Group

(Geology) A stratigraphic unit, especially a unit consisting of two or more formations deposited during a single geologic era.

Association

(countable) The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.

Group

(Mathematics) A set, together with a binary associative operation, such that the set is closed under the operation, the set contains an identity element for the operation, and each element of the set has an inverse element with respect to the operation. The integers form a group under the operation of ordinary addition.

Association

(statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).

Group

Of, relating to, constituting, or being a member of a group
A group discussion.
A group effort.

Association

A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.

Group

To place or arrange in a group
Grouped the children according to height.

Association

(object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.

Group

To belong to or form a group
The soldiers began to group on the hillside.

Association

A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname or trade or business.

Group

A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
There is a group of houses behind the hill;
He left town to join a Communist group
A group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.

Association

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.
Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God.

Group

(group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

Association

Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing.
Words . . . must owe their powers association.
Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable associations, be profaned?

Group

An effective divisor on a curve.

Association

Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches.

Group

A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
Did you see the new jazz group?

Association

A formal organization of people or groups of people;
He joined the Modern Language Association

Group

(astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

Association

The act of consorting with or joining with others;
You cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association

Group

(chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

Association

The state of being connected together as in memory or imagination;
His association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break

Group

(chemistry) A functional group.
Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.

Association

A social or business relationship;
A valuable financial affiliation
He was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team
Many close associations with England

Group

(sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.

Association

The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination;
Conditioning is a form of learning by association

Group

(military) An air force formation.

Association

A relation resulting from interaction or dependence;
Flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear
The host is not always injured by association with a parasite

Group

(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.

Association

(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding

Group

(computing) A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

Association

(ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species

Group

An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.

Group

(music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.

Group

(sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.

Group

(business) A commercial organization.

Group

(transitive) To put together to form a group.
Group the dogs by hair colour

Group

(intransitive) To come together to form a group.

Group

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.

Group

An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.

Group

A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.

Group

A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; - sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.

Group

To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.
The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or, as the painters term it, in grouping such a multitude of different objects.

Group

Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

Group

(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

Group

A set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse

Group

Arrange into a group or groups;
Can you group these shapes together?

Group

Form a group or group together

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