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n. A natural attraction, liking, or feeling of kinship.

n. Relationship by marriage.

n. An inherent similarity between persons or things. See Synonyms at likeness.

n. Biology A relationship or resemblance in structure between species that suggests a common origin.

n. Immunology The attraction between an antigen and an antibody.

n. Chemistry An attraction or force between particles that causes them to combine.

n. A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.

n. A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity. (e.g. sister).

n. A kinsman or kinswoman of such relationship. Affinal kinsman or kinswoman.

n. The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.

n. Any romantic relationship.

n. Any passionate love for something.

n. resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.

n. structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.

n. An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds

n. The attraction between an antibody and an antigen

n. tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses

n. Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between.

n. Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection.

n. Companionship; acquaintance.

n. That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective affinity or attraction.

n. A relation between species or higher groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin.

n. A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.

n. An artificial relationship between persons of different blood, regarded as analogous to consanguinity; the relation between families or individuals created by intermarriage (excluding that between the married persons), by legal adoption, or by sponsorship; more especially, the relation between a husband or wife and the kindred of the other spouse.

n. Intercourse; acquaintance; companionship.

n. Hence A natural liking for, or attraction to, a person or thing; a natural drawing or inclination; an inherent mutual liking or attraction.

n. Inherent likeness or agreement as between things; essential or specific conformity; intimate resemblance or connection.

n. In chem., that force by which the atoms of bodies of dissimilar nature unite in certain definite proportions to form a compound different in its nature from any of its constituents: called distinctively chemical or elective affinity.

n. In biology, morphological and implied genetic relationship, resulting in a resemblance in general plan or structure, or in the essential structural parts, existing between two organisms or groups of organisms; true and near structural relationship, predicable of two or more organisms morphologically related, however diverse physiologically.

n. In psychology, that in ideas which renders them capable of being associated in the mind, as their similarity or coadjacency.

n. In geometry, the relationship between two figures in the same plane which correspond to each other, point to point and straight line to straight line, any point of the one lying in a fixed direction from the corresponding point of the other, and at a distance from it proportional to its distance from a fixed line, called the axis of affinity, the direction of which is that of lines joining corresponding points.

n. In projective geometry, a perspective of which the center is at an infinite distance.

n. a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character

n. (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship

n. (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts

n. the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule

n. inherent resemblance between persons or things

n. (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody

n. a natural attraction or feeling of kinship

"This is the premier action that has a level of coordination, but they are what you call affinity groups that are going to be doing these spontaneous actions all across the city that we don't even know about, so we will try to capture them as they happen and bring them back to you as we can."

relationship    family relationship    kinship    force    resemblance    attractive force    attraction    attractiveness   

affirmance day general    affinity constants    clang affinity    relationship    predisposing affinity   

microaffinity   

relation    conformity    resemblance    connection    companionship    acquaintance    chemism    liking    attraction   

Trinity    alkalinity    divinity    femininity    infinity    masculinity    salinity    trinity    vicinity    virginity   

attraction    similarity    unity    significance    kinship    intuition    analogy    distinction    identity    association