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affinity

/əˈfɪnəti/

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What does affinity mean?

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.
More meanings (10)

noun

  1. The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
  2. Any romantic relationship.
  3. A love interest; a paramour.
  4. Any passionate love for something.
  5. Resemblances between biological populations, suggesting that they have a common origin, type or stock.
  6. Structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
  7. An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds.
  8. The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
  9. A tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses.
  10. An automorphism of affine space.
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IPA pronunciation

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Each preparation of the leaves has its individuality, its special affinity with water and heat, its own method of telling a story.
Kakuzo OkakuraThe Book of TeaProject Gutenberg ebook #769
Now the fertility of first crosses between species, and of the hybrids produced from them, is largely governed by their systematic affinity.
Charles DarwinOn the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for LifeProject Gutenberg ebook #1228
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The forces of gravitation, electricity, or chemical affinity are only distinguished from one another in that they are differently defined by reason.
Leo, graf TolstoyWar and PeaceTranslated by Aylmer Maude; Louise MaudeProject Gutenberg ebook #2600
It seems to be felt that they have a natural affinity to the fruitful grain, which they speak of as becoming pregnant.
Charles Hose; William McDougallThe Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic RelationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3307
Of course Zn must have a stronger chemical affinity for Cl than H has, or the change could not have taken place.
Rufus P. (Rufus Phillips) WilliamsAn Introduction to Chemical ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #3708