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Affinity (noun)
A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
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Affinity (noun)
A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).
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Affinity (noun)
A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.
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Affinity (noun)
The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
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Affinity (noun)
Any romantic relationship.
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Affinity (noun)
Any passionate love for something.
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Affinity (noun)
biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.
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Affinity (noun)
structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
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Affinity (noun)
An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds
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Affinity (noun)
The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
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Affinity (noun)
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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Affinity (noun)
An automorphism of affine space.
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Kin (noun)
Race; family; breed; kind.
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Kin (noun)
Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
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Kin (noun)
One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
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Kin (noun)
Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
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Kin (noun)
Kind; sort; manner; way.
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Kin (adjective)
Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in “kin to”.
“It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.”