association vs fracture

association

noun
  • The act of associating. 

  • The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something. 

  • Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf. 

  • A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname or trade or business. 

  • A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society. 

  • Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation). 

fracture

noun
  • An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken. 

  • A break in bone or cartilage. 

  • A fault or crack in a rock. 

verb
  • To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides. 

  • To break, or cause something to break. 

How often have the words association and fracture occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )