Usually means: Linear transformation plus a translation.
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  1. affine: Merriam-Webster
  2. affine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. affine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. affine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. affine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Affine, affine: Wordnik
  7. affine: Wiktionary
  8. affine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. affine: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. affine: Dictionary.com
  11. Affine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Affine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. affine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. affine: Rhymezone
  15. Affine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. affine: FreeDictionary.org
  17. affine: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. affine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. affine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. affine: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. affine: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. affine: Glossary of research economics

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  1. affine: A Word A Day

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. affine: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Affine: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
  4. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Affine: Glossary of Cheese Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (affine)

adjective:  (not comparable, mathematics) Assigning finite values to finite quantities.
adjective:  (not comparable, geometry) Of or pertaining to a function expressible as f(⃑x)=A⃑x+⃑b (where A is a linear transformation and ⃑b is a constant), which, regarded as a transformation, maps parallel lines to parallel lines and finite points to finite points.
adjective:  (comparable, chemistry) Of two materials, having mutual affinity.
noun:  (anthropology, genealogy) A relative by marriage.
verb:  (transitive) To refine.
verb:  (computing, transitive) To set the CPU affinity of something

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