association vs ident

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). 

ident

noun
  • Identifier. 

  • A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks. 

  • A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster. 

  • Identification. 

adj
  • Diligent; persistent. 

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