association

noun6

1. •
   The act of associating.

   • And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state. — 1970
2. •
   a group that people join because they share an interest or a goal
3. •
   (Philippines) A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname, geographical origin, location, trade or business.
4. •
   The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
5. •
   Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
6. •
   Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.