affinity meaning
EN
[əˈfɪnɪti] WAffinity
- Affinity may refer to:
- NounPLaffinitiesSUF-ity
- 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 such relationship. Affinal kinsman or kinswoman.
- The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
- Any romantic relationship.
- Any passionate love for something.
- (taxonomy) resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.
- (geology) structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
- (chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds.
- (medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen.
- (computing) tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses.
- (geometry) An automorphism of affine space.
- A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Application of UV light leads to the formation of the cis form, with remarkedly reduced affinity towards GluK2.
- Next, affinity maturation of hz1E11 was performed by the randomization of CDR-L3 and H3 residues followed by stringent biopanning selection.
- We believe that this study could provide a basis for developing angiokinase inhibitors having high affinity for the epidermal growth factor receptor, from the pyrimidine scaffold.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The enhanced cholesterol and phospholipid efflux by CS-6252 is likely related to the increased amphipathicity of CS-6253 helix, thereby increasing its lipid affinity.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of affinity in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "affinity" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.