associate motions ―motions that occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions
1794, Erasmus Darwin,Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life, page36:
Theseassociate ideas are gradually formed into habits of acting together, by frequent repetition, while they are yet separately obedient to the will; as is evident from the difficulty we experience in gaining so exact an idea of the front of St. Paul's church, as to be able to delineate it with accuracy, or in recollecting a poem of a few pages.
A member of an institution or society who is granted only partialstatus orprivileges.
(algebra) One of a pair of elements of anintegral domain (or aring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with aunit).
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As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,[…]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get.[…]I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, toassociate with gentlemen in private life.
He succeeded inassociating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language.
1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, inRailway Magazine, page514:
A branch of rail transport that seems to been rather neglected by historians is that concerned with cliff railways, of which a fair number exist in Great Britain. This is probably because these lines are overshadowed by the more spectacular funicular railways in Switzerland and other mountainous regions; perhaps, too, because of the general habit of referring to them as "cliff lifts," which tends toassociate them with the vertical indoor type.
1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, inTrains Illustrated, page714:
The economics of rebuilding all the stations covered by the electrification would be prohibitive, but to help bring home to the Glasgow public that their North Clyde suburban service has been transformed, not merely re-equipped with new trains, stations have at least beenassociated psychologically with the rolling stock by a common colour scheme.
Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below thoseassociated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident.
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