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affinity

Wikipedia affinity (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 such relationship. Affinal kinsman or kinswoman.
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 1840460865):

     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

Definizione dizionario affinity

	affinità
	An inherent similarity between persons or things.
	For Network Load Balancing, the method used to associate client requests to cluster hosts. When no affinity is specified, all network requests are load balanced across the cluster without respect to their source. Affinity is implemented by directing all client requests from the same IP address to the same cluster host.

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Altri significati:

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

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

natural attraction for something

Chemistry or Medicine

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

Any passionate love for something.

(computing) tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses

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

(chemical) affinity

(medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen

related to (some place)

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

romantic relationship

Any romantic relationship.

family relationship through marriage of a relative

passionate love for something

A kinsman or kinswoman of such relationship. Affinal kinsman or kinswoman.

(geology) structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.