Dictionary
stel'lar associa'tion
Astron.
a sparsely populated group of between 10 and 1000 young stars of similar spectral type and common origin that are moving too fast to form a permanent, gravitationally bound system.
Also called association of stars, association. Cf.
globular cluster, open cluster. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.