The association of words or phrases based on sound rather than meaning, sometimes encountered in the speech of patients with psychiatric disorders.

plural of klang association

(historical) An organization of citizens, typically in the same community, who paid dues to cover one another's costs of privately prosecuting offenders should a crime be committed against them.

plural of prosecution association

(algebra) A vector space over some field which also has an associative vector-valued multiplication operator between vectors which together with the abelian group feature of the vector space makes a ring.

plural of associative case

(computing) The association of a file type with a program, so that the chosen program is the default for opening files of that type.

plural of file association

(grammar) A form of plural — typically used with a name, title or kinship term — which collectively refers to all those people associated with the referent (within the given frame of reference).

plural of associative plural