Affinities

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Definitions and meanings of "Affinities"

What do we mean by affinities?

A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.

A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).

A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.

The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.

Any romantic relationship.

Any passionate love for something.

Resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.

Structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.

An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds

The attraction between an antibody and an antigen

Tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses

An automorphism of affine space.

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The word "affinities" in example sentences

SR: Actually, the influences on my writing and thinking come from a totally different place, although there are certain affinities — a sense of the power of the irrational, these atavistic drives pulsing inside culture. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Worth noting is that, while there are two fossil hoatzins, neither of them preserve enough information to tell us anything useful about hoatzin affinities, or about the way of life of the fossil forms. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

South American Miocene Charactosuchus, while gharial-like, has been regarded as a highly unusual crocodylid of uncertain affinities (Langston 1965, Langston & Gasparini 1997), while Euthecodon – a uniquely African taxon, some species of which approached 10 m in length – is also a crocodylid, and perhaps a close relative of the living dwarf crocodiles (and we’ll discuss those more in a moment). ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

How can one be a reader and not develop certain affinities. ❋ Roger Sutton (2008)

In return for this patronage, magnates expected their clients, tenants, and neighbors — their "affinities" — to support them with men, arms, and money when the magnate needed military resources. ❋ Unknown (2008)

-- RUSS There was a box for "affinities," words that would draw a searcher, or surfer, to the site. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And what kind of affinities do spiraling coincidences imply? ❋ Andr&233; Aciman (1998)

Those babble of "affinities" who know little, and care less, about the long and arduous ascent up which mankind has toiled, in the effort to attain to civilization. ❋ George Stuart Fullerton (N/A)

Tricotrin -- by 'affinities' I do not mean hungry poets. ❋ Leonard Merrick (1901)

Naish & Martill (2001), the idiots, thought that this might be another brachiosaurid, but that’s clearly wrong: Canudo et al. (2002) suggested that Oplosaurus might instead have been closer to Camarasaurus, and Upchurch et al. (2004) regarded it as a distinct neosauropod of uncertain affinities. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Hence they cry out, Do away with marriage-vows -- leave us all to choose our "affinities" at will -- and there will soon be no divorces or causes for divorce. ❋ Unknown (1860)

Questions such the ones listed below are based on 'affinities' or data patterns and require a new type of analytics - Affinity Web Analytics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So that was the strategy I settled on for framing this paper, though in many ways the heart of the paper, for me, is the middle section I omitted here, in which I try to demonstrate the "affinities" between the two novels. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also, if you've correctly sensed the "affinities," an amazing amount of progress can take place while the group members interact with each other during mediator's caucuses with other parties - i.e., you come back into the room, and the group that, collectively, was willing to put in $X as their share now presents a contribution of $X+. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"affinities" creep into the lives of those who marry early, or in those who marry after thirty. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

"affinities" has wrecked many a life which but for that would have been ❋ Unknown (1910)

"affinities," all the sweetstuff sensuality and senseless sulking against law. ❋ Unknown (1905)

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