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affinity

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??f?n?ti/

Etymology

From Old French affinité.

Noun

affinity (countable and uncountable, plural affinities)

  1. A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
  2. A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).
  3. A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.
  4. The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
    • 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN:
      A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was guessing and interpreting, not observing or demonstrating.
  5. Any romantic relationship.
  6. Any passionate love for something.
  7. (taxonomy) resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.
  8. (geology) structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
  9. (chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds
  10. (medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
  11. (computing) tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses
  12. (geometry) An automorphism of affine space.

Hyponyms

  • microaffinity

Derived terms

Translations

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  • what affinity am i
  • what affinity means in chemistry
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  • what's affinity in spanish
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favour

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?fe?.v?/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?fe?.v?/
  • Rhymes: -e?v?(?)
  • Hyphenation: fa?vour

Noun

favour (countable and uncountable, plural favours)

  1. (British spelling) Standard spelling of favor.

Derived terms

  • out of favour

Translations

Verb

favour (third-person singular simple present favours, present participle favouring, simple past and past participle favoured)

  1. (British spelling) Standard spelling of favor.
    • 1611, KJV, Luke 1:28:
      "And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women." —

Usage notes

  • Favour is the standard British and Commonwealth spelling. Favor is the standard American spelling, and an alternative in Canada.

Translations


Old French

Noun

favour f (oblique plural favours, nominative singular favour, nominative plural favours)

  1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of favor

favour From the web:

  • what favours the production of peat
  • what favourite
  • what favours the brave
  • what flavour
  • what favours the bold
  • what favourite colour says about you
  • what favourite colour
  • what favourite food
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