affinity

Meaning of affinity

noun
  1. A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
  2. A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).
  3. A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.
  4. The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
  5. Any romantic relationship.
  6. Any passionate love for something.
  7. Resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.
  8. Structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
  9. An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds
  10. The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
  11. Tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses
  12. An automorphism of affine space.

Information about affinity

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of affinity is: affinities.
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Hyphenation of affinity

affin-ity

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • affinity is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

affinity synonyms

Meaning kinship:

kinship

Translation of affinity

Words that rhyme with affinity

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