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1.NounA natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
2.NounA family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).
3.NounA kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.
4.NounThe fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
5.NounAny romantic relationship.
6.NounA love interest; a paramour.
7.NounAny passionate love for something.
8.NounResemblances between biological populations, suggesting that they have a common origin, type or stock.
9.NounStructural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
10.NounAn attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds.
11.NounThe attraction between an antibody and an antigen
12.NounA tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses.
13.NounAn automorphism of affine space.