AFFINITY in English dictionary

  • affinity

    Meanings and definitions of "AFFINITY"

    • 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.
    • 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
    • noun
      A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
    • noun
      A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity. (e.g. sister).
    • noun
      A kinsman or kinswoman of such relationship. Affinal kinsman or kinswoman.
    • noun
      The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
    • noun
      Any romantic relationship.
    • noun
      Any passionate love for something.
    • noun
      (taxonomy)
      resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.
    • noun
      (geology)
      structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
    • noun
      (chemistry)
      An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds
    • noun
      (medicine)
      The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
    • noun
      (computing)
      tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses
    • noun
      (geometry)
      An automorphism of affine space.
    • natural attraction for something
    • family relationship through marriage of a relative
    • romantic relationship
    • passionate love for something
    • Chemistry or Medicine
    • For Network Load Balancing, the method used to associate client requests to cluster hosts. When no affinity is specified, all network requests are load balanced across the cluster without respect to their source. Affinity is implemented by directing all client requests from the same IP address to the same cluster host.
    • An inherent similarity between persons or things.
    • related to (some place)
    • (chemical) affinity
    • noun
      (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship
    • noun
      a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character; "found a natural affinity with the immigrants"; "felt a deep kinship with the other students"; "anthropology's kinship with the humanities"
    • noun
      a natural attraction or feeling of kinship; "an affinity for politics"; "the mysterious affinity between them"; "James's affinity with Sam"
    • noun
      (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts; "in anatomical structure prehistoric man shows close affinity with modern humans"
    • noun
      (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody
    • noun
      inherent resemblance between persons or things
    • noun
      the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule; "basic dyes have an affinity for wool and silk"

    Synonyms of "AFFINITY" in English dictionary

    attraction, phylogenetic relation, chemical attraction are the top synonyms of "AFFINITY" in the English thesaurus.

    Antonyms of "AFFINITY" in English dictionary

    consanguinity is the antonym of "AFFINITY" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of AFFINITY

    • affinity ( plural  affinities)
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