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