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==Commerce and law== |
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* [[Affinity fraud]], a type of scam targeting a specific demographic |
* [[Affinity fraud]], a type of scam targeting a specific demographic |
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* [[Affinity analysis]], a market research and business management technique |
* [[Affinity analysis]], a market research and business management technique |
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* [[Affinity marketing]], a method of extending market reach by forming partnerships and cross-selling relationships |
* [[Affinity marketing]], a method of extending market reach by forming partnerships and cross-selling relationships |
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* [[Affinity (law)]], kinship by marriage |
* [[Affinity (law)]], kinship by marriage |
Revision as of 17:33, 3 September 2012
Look up affinity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Affinity may refer to:
Commerce and law
- Affinity fraud, a type of scam targeting a specific demographic
- Affinity analysis, a market research and business management technique
- Affinity marketing, a method of extending market reach by forming partnerships and cross-selling relationships
- Affinity (law), kinship by marriage
Religion and conviction
- 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
Science and technology
- 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
Various other meanings, media, and games
- 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