Meaning of affinity in English

affinity

noun

/əˈfɪn.ə.ti/ us

/əˈfɪn.ə.t̬i/

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[ S ]

a liking or sympathy for someone or something, especially because of shared characteristics:

She seems to have a natural affinity for/with water.

[ C or U ]

a close similarity between two things:

There are several close affinities between the two paintings.

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affinity

noun [ C/U ]

/əˈfɪn·ɪ·t̬i/

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a close similarity between two things, or an attraction or sympathy for someone or something, esp. because of shared characteristics:

[ C ] Many people really feel an affinity for/with dolphins.

(Definition of affinity from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of affinity

affinity

The affinities have been clearly displayed, and the points of disagreement brought into unmistakeable view.

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The statistical-thermodynamic basis for computation of binding affinities : a critical review.

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Indeed, effective responses to stimuli may require weak intrinsic affinities to assure sufficient interfacial plasticity for the expression of ligand-induced conformational changes.

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Binding affinities of host-guest, protein-ligand, and protein-transition-state complexes.

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A protein's selectivity for a particular nucleotide, for example, is quantified in terms of its relative affinities for two different, but similar, nucleotides.

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Parties often appeared to be factional alliances, and the recruitment of members was only vaguely based on common interests and ideological affinities.

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Marxism and nationalism were closely intertwined both by their contingent, ambivalent alliances and by their contingent conceptual affinities in many areas.

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While modernity may have gone wrong, while it may not have yielded the culture, affinities, and social promises it intended, it is still modernity.

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The final chapter on pigmentation considers the likely biological significance of a trait much used in the determination of racial affinities.

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We detail two extensions to the simple scheme: the first overcomes the loss of lexical affinities, and the second facilitates enhanced information gathering.

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Instead, the concept of three ' sorts of people ' expressed a rudimentary perception of broad, rough-edged affinities between occupations of similar wealth, administrative power, and prestige.

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Chemists could determine the laws of affinities by comparing their forces with the repulsive force of caloric.

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The physico-chemistry of affinities and of fermentation, which concerns respiration, chyliation, glandular secretion, reproduction, etc., does not modify the givens of the problem.

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If they could only be unraveled, these hierarchies of interlocking affinities might bring order to the realm of chemistry.

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The halogens, with their large electron affinities, are the best negative ion candidates.

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Collocations with affinity

affinity

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affinity group

Each agent was placed into one of several affinity groups, and a congregation is stable if and only if it contains only members of the same affinity group.

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binding affinity

Consider a combination of three binding motifs that cause increased binding affinity, and thus an increase in expression levels.

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close affinity

And here we discern a close affinity with the phenomenological theme of authenticity.

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What is the pronunciation of affinity?

Translations of affinity

in Chinese (Traditional)

（尤指因為有相同的特徵而引起的）情投意合，喜愛，吸引, 類同, 雷同…

Meaning of affinity in English

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