Affinity

Affinity may refer to:

Commerce, finance and law

• Affinity (law), kinship by marriage
• Affinity analysis, a market research and business management technique
• Affinity fraud, a type of scam targeting a specific demographic
• Affinity marketing, a method of extending market reach by forming partnerships and cross-selling relationships
• Affinity Equity Partners, an Asian private equity firm
• Affinity Credit Union, a Saskatchewan-based credit union

Politics

• Affinity (medieval), late medieval retainers of a monarch in "bastard feudalism".

Religion and belief

• 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, a private, non-commercial and non-governmental organisation formed around a shared interest or goal

Science and technology

• Affinity, the UK's first road-legal solar car, built by Cambridge University Eco Racing
• Affinity (mathematics), an affine transformation preserving collinearity
• Affinity (pharmacology), a characterisation of protein-ligand binding strength
• Affinity (sociology), a shared interest and commitment between persons in groups and/or willingness to associate
• Affinity (taxonomy), a suggestion of common descent or type
• Affinity chromatography
• Affinity electrophoresis
• Affinity laws, laws used in hydraulics to express relationships between variables involved in fan or pump performance
• Affine transformation, a type of transformation applied to a geometry
• Chemical affinity, used to describe or characterise elements' or compounds' readiness to form bonds
• Electron affinity
• Processor affinity, a computing term for the assignment of a task to a given core of a multicore CPU
• Serif Europe's Affinity series of programs
  • Affinity Photo, a raster graphics editor
  • Affinity Designer, a vector illustration editor

Media-related

Music

• Affinity (band), a jazz/rock band active in the late 60s and early 70s
  • Affinity (Affinity album), their eponymous début album
• Affinity (Bill Evans album), an album by jazz pianist Bill Evans
• Affinity (Haken album), an album by the progressive metal band Haken
• Affinity (Oscar Peterson album), an album by jazz pianist Oscar Peterson
• Johnny Alegre Affinity, a jazz collective based in Manila

Other media

• Affinity (novel), a 1999 novel by Sarah Waters

  Affinity (film), a 2008 feature film based on this novel

• "Affinity" (Stargate SG-1), an episode from season 8 of the TV sci-fi spin-off series Stargate SG-1
• Elective Affinities, a novel by Goethe

Other uses

• Affinity, West Virginia

See also

• Affine (disambiguation)
  • Refining, also known as "affining"
• Afinidad (disambiguation)