Affinity
Affinity is a word used in a variety of fields, usually to indicate some kind of preference, relationship, or a potential or actual closeness between two entities.
Articles dealing with various usages of the word: affinity include:
Commerce and law
Religion and conviction
Science and technology
- Affinity chromatography
- Affinity electrophoresis
- Affinity laws, in hydraulics, used to express the relationship between variables involved in fan or pump performance
- Affinity (mathematics) - an affine transformation (which preserves collinearity)
- Affinity (pharmacology) - in biochemistry, protein-ligand binding
- Affinity (sociology) - shared interests and commitments between persons in groups, "willingness to associate"; see also interpersonal compatibility and friendliness.
- Affinity (taxonomy) - mainly in natural history - resemblance suggesting a common descent or type
- Electron affinity
- Processor affinity, a computing term for the assignment of a task to a given core of a multicore CPU.
- In chemistry, chemical affinity is the willingness of two or more elements or compounds to form a chemical or attractive bond of some type, and equally, as a term for the strength of that bond once formed.
- In philology, a type of resemblance between languages, suggesting that such languages stem from a common stock;
- In philosophy, shared or matching lines of thought, conclusions or objectives;
- In geology, minerals and formations where evidence suggests common origins and constitutions.
- in natural history, resemblances between biological communities (usually taxons) that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.
Various other meanings, media, and games
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