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Affinity may refer to:

Affinity fraud, a type of scam targeting a specific demographic
Affinity analysis, a market research and business management technique used to identify products likely to be bought together or the relationship of demand for a product to other external factors such as weather
Affinity marketing, a method of extending market reach by forming partnerships and cross-selling relationships
Affinity (law), kinship by marriage

Affinity (canon law), a kinship arising from the sexual intercourse of a man and a woman
Affinity (Christian organisation), formerly known as the British Evangelical Council
Affinity group - small protest or activist groups of 10-30 people

Affinity chromatography
Affinity electrophoresis
Affinity laws, in hydraulics, used to express the relationship between variables involved in fan or pump performance
Affinity (mathematics) - an affine transformation (which preserves collinearity)
Affinity (pharmacology) - in biochemistry, protein-ligand binding
Affinity (sociology) - shared interests and commitments between persons in groups, "willingness to associate"
Affinity (taxonomy) - mainly in natural history - resemblance suggesting a common descent or type
Electron affinity
Processor affinity, a computing term for the assignment of a task to a given core of a multicore CPU
In chemistry, chemical affinity is the willingness of two or more elements or compounds to form a chemical or attractive bond of some type, and equally, as a term for the strength of that bond once formed

Affinity (band), A Jazz/Rock band active in the late 60s and early 70s
Affinity (Philippines band), a collective of Manila's premier jazz musicians
The Leper Affinity, a song from Blackwater Park by Opeth
Affinity (Fire Emblem), the numerous bonuses units in the videogame Fire Emblem have from sharing support conversations with one another
"Affinity" (Stargate SG-1), a season 8 episode of Stargate SG-1
Affinity (novel), 1999 novel by Sarah Waters
Affinity (film), a 2008 feature film based on Sarah Waters' novel
Elective Affinities - the concept of chemical affinities as a metaphor for human emotional affinities
See BMJ Group for Affinity (BMJ), a publishing partnership programme of the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd for independent journals

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+'''Affinity''' may refer to:
-'''Affinity''' is a word used in a variety of fields, usually to indicate some kind of preference, [[wiktionary:Relation|relationship]], or a potential or actual closeness between two entities.
-Articles dealing with various usages of the word: '''affinity''' include:
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