Affinity

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
• Chemical affinity, the willingness of two or more elements or compounds to form a chemical or attractive bond of some type

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
• 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 also

• Refine or affining, process of purificiation
• Affine (disambiguation)
• Afinidad (disambiguation)