affinity

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing. countable,uncountable
  2. A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister). countable,uncountable
  3. A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal. countable,uncountable
  4. The fact of and manner in which something is related to another. countable,uncountable
    — There are, of course, certain differences of detail; for example, the placing of the safety valves on the boiler barrel behind the dome, which follows the practice in the Riddles 2-8-0 and 2-10-0 locomotives for the Ministry of Supply; but taken all in all, Britannia's boiler has a closer affinity with the Doncaster designs than with any other.
  5. Any romantic relationship. countable,uncountable
  6. A love interest; a paramour. countable,uncountable
    — "Cut it short, sis, cut it short," he would growl at her if she started to murmur sweet "coo-coos" to her affinity stationed on the other end of the wire.
  7. Any passionate love for something. countable,uncountable
  8. Resemblances between biological populations, suggesting that they have a common origin, type or stock. countable,uncountable
  9. Structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type. countable,uncountable
  10. An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds. countable,uncountable
  11. The attraction between an antibody and an antigen countable,uncountable
  12. A tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses. countable,uncountable
  13. An automorphism of affine space. countable,uncountable

词形变化

affinities plural

词汇关系

下位词
microaffinity

词源

From Middle English affinite, from Old French affinité. Ostensibly equivalent to affine + -ity. See also af-.
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