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bonding: fastening firmly together; (dentistry) a technique for repairing a tooth; resinous material is applied to the surface of the tooth where it adheres to the tooth's enamel; a close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child)

association collapse: the act of consorting with or joining with others; "you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association"; the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by 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; a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he joined the Modern Language Association"; (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding; 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"; the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination; "his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break"

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