different between narration vs affinity

English

Etymology

From Middle French narration, from Old French narracion, from Latin narr?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n???e?.??n/, [?n???e?.?n?]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n????e?.??n/, [?n????e?.?n?]
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

narration (countable and uncountable, plural narrations)

1. The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
2. That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.
3. (rhetoric) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.

Related terms

• narrate
• narrative
• narrator

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????? (nar?shon)

Translations

References

• narration in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• atranorin

French

Etymology

Latin narr?ti?.

Pronunciation

Noun

narration f (plural narrations)

1. narration (account; story)
2. narration (literary device)
3. (rhetoric) narration

Related terms

• narrer

Further reading

• “narration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

Latin narr?ti?.

Noun

narration f (plural narrations)

1. narration (account; story)

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

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