a great way for students to get to know one another while in school and helps form friendships that extend far beyond the confines of the classroom

a means of identifying a set of exposures as belonging together and being, in some sense, dependent upon one another

an organization of adults banded together to sponsor and administer one or more non-school youth football teams

All the plants and animals that live together in a particular place. Associations are bound together by food webs and other interactions. The concept of “association” implies that members come and go over time as conditions change. Compare with Community.

The tendency for two things to occur together.

when one characteristic is related to another and they change predictably together.

A linkage between two psychological processes as a result of past experience in which the two have occurred together. A broad term that subsumes conditioning and association of ideas among others.

In other games, a guild often means a group of players who form together, often based on similar interests, playing styles, friendship, etc. In Dark Age of Camelot, that type of organization does exist, but is referred to as an Association. Associations will be able to assemble based on the criteria they set for themselves and are under independent player-run leadership.

here: being together with others without fear of persecution

Plants found growing together; vegetation communities.