Affinity

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Affinity may refer to:

Commerce, finance and law

• Affinity (law), kinship by marriage
• Affinity analysis, a market research and business management technique
• Affinity Credit Union, a Saskatchewan-based credit union
• Affinity Equity Partners, an Asian private equity firm
• Affinity fraud, a type of scam targeting a specific demographic
• Affinity marketing, a method of extending market reach by forming partnerships and cross-selling relationships
• Affinity Partners, an American private equity firm

Religion and belief

• Affinity (canon law), a kinship arising from the sexual intercourse of a man and a woman
• Affinity (Christian organisation), network of conservative evangelical churches and Christian agencies
• Affinity group, a private, non-commercial and non-governmental organisation formed around a shared interest or goal

Science and technology

• Affinity, the UK's first road-legal solar car, built by Cambridge University Eco Racing
• Affinity (mathematics), an affine transformation preserving collinearity
• Affinity (pharmacology), a characterisation of protein-ligand binding strength
• Affinity (sociology), a shared interest and commitment between persons in groups and/or willingness to associate
• Affinity (taxonomy), a suggestion of common descent or type
• Affinity chromatography, method of separating a biomolecule from a mixture
• Affinity electrophoresis, general name for many analytical methods used in biochemistry and biotechnology
• Affinity laws, laws used in hydraulics to express relationships between variables involved in fan or pump performance
• Binding affinity, a measure of the interaction of ligands with their binding sites
• Chemical affinity, used to describe or characterise elements' or compounds' readiness to form bonds
• Electron affinity, energy released on formation of anions
• Processor affinity, a computing term for the assignment of a task to a given core of a multicore CPU
• Serif Europe's Affinity series of programs
  • Affinity Designer, a vector illustration editor
  • Affinity Photo, a raster graphics editor
  • Affinity Publisher, a desktop publishing application

Media-related

Music

• Affinity (band), a jazz/rock band
  • Affinity (Affinity album)
• Affinity (Bill Evans album)
• Affinity (Haken album)
• Affinity (Oscar Peterson album)
• Affinity (EP), a 2013 EP by the English band Press to Meco
• Johnny Alegre A, a jazz collective based in Manila

Other media

• Affinity (novel), a 1999 novel by Sarah Waters
  • Affinity (film), a 2008 feature film based on the novel
• "Affinity" (Stargate SG-1), an episode from season 8 of the TV sci-fi spin-off series Stargate SG-1
• Elective Affinities, a novel by Goethe

Other uses

• Affinity (medieval), late medieval retainers of a monarch in "bastard feudalism"
• Affinity, West Virginia

See also

• Affine (disambiguation)
  • Affine transformation, a type of transformation applied to a geometry
  • Refining, also known as "affining"
• Afinidad (disambiguation)

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