affine
Americannoun
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a person related to one by marriage.
adjective
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assigning finite values to finite quantities.
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of or relating to a transformation that maps parallel lines to parallel lines and finite points to finite points.
adjective
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maths of, characterizing, or involving transformations which preserve collinearity, esp in classical geometry, those of translation, rotation and reflection in an axis
Other Word Forms
- affinely adverb
Etymology
Origin of affine
1500–10; < French affin related < Latin affinis akin, neighboring
Example Sentences
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The affine wealth model has been applied to empirical data from many countries and epochs.
From Scientific American • Oct. 30, 2019
Schr�dinger has found this in an "affine" geometry, which deals with pure concepts in their essence, not with measurement in the ordinary sense.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such forms now begin to appear in America; and if for these a specific name is needed, it is provided, P. affine Rost.,
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
So, forth they came—a vast ancestral line, Upon my vision teeming, All shapes whose natal semblance could affine Them to me, faintly gleaming.
From Nirvana Days by Rice, Cale Young
The author says in his further description that the form affine is less definitely umbilicate, has white stems, etc.; allantoid, one would now say.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
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