The difference between Association and Connection
When used as nouns, association means the act of associating, whereas connection means the act of connecting.
check bellow for the other definitions of Association and Connection
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Association as a noun:
The act of associating.
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Association as a noun:
The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
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Association as a noun (statistics):
Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
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Association as a noun:
A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
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Association as a noun (object-oriented programming):
Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
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Connection as a noun (uncountable):
The act of connecting.
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Connection as a noun:
The point at which two or more things are connected.
Examples:
"the connection between overeating and obesity"
"My headache has no connection with me going out last night."
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Connection as a noun:
A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
Examples:
"As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us."
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Connection as a noun:
An established communications or transportation link.
Examples:
"computers linked by a network connection"
"I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection."
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Connection as a noun (transport):
A from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service
Examples:
"The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train."
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Connection as a noun:
A kinship relationship between people.
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Connection as a noun:
An individual who is related to oneself.
Examples:
"I have some connections in Lancashire."
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Connection as a noun:
A of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
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Connection as a noun:
; lack of disjointedness