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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.nounAny passionate love for something.
7.nounResemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.
8.nounStructural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
9.nounAn attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds
10.nounThe attraction between an antibody and an antigen
11.nounTendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses
12.nounAn automorphism of affine space.