affinity
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Etymology [edit]
From Old French affinité.
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Wikipedia affinity (plural affinities)
- 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 such relationship. Affinal kinsman or kinswoman.
- The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
- 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865):
- A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was guessing and interpreting, not observing or demonstrating.
- 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865):
- Any romantic relationship.
- Any passionate love for something.
- (taxonomy) resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.
- (geology) structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
- (chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds
- (medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
- (computing) tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses
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natural attraction for something
family relationship through marriage of a relative
kinsman or kinswoman of such relationship
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passionate love for something
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