Affine

adj. allocating finite values to finite quantities (Mathematics)

Affine may refer to:Affine cipher, a special case of the more general substitution cipherAffine combination, a certain kind of constrained linear combinationAffine connection, a connection on the tangent bundle of a differentiable manifoldAffine geometry, a geometry not involving any notions of origin, length or angleAffine group, the group of all invertible affine transformations from any affine space over a field K into itselfAffine representation, a continuous group homomorphism whose values are automorphisms of an affine spaceAffine scheme, the spectrum of prime ideals of a commutative ringAffine space, an abstract structure that generalises the affine-geometric properties of Euclidean spaceAffine transformation, a linear transformation followed by a translation between two vector spaces, or equivalently, a transformation that preserves all affine combinations
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Noun
1. (anthropology) kin by marriage
(hypernym) kin, kinsperson, family
(classification) anthropology
Adjective
1. related by marriage
(synonym) affinal
(similar) related

adj. refined, civilized

v. refine, polish; attenuate; mature

adj. kindred, similar, analogous, cognate, congenial