EGAVE

affine

About 0.43 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Assigning finite values to finite quantities.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to a function expressible as f(x→)=Ax→+b→ (where A is a linear transformation and b→ is a constant), which, regarded as a transformation, maps parallel lines to parallel lines and finite points to finite points.
  3. adjective Of two materials, having mutual affinity.
  4. noun A relative by marriage.
  5. verb To refine.
  6. verb To set the CPU affinity of something

Similar words

fractal piecewise fractals affinized affinoid cofinite finitary biaffine countable discrete

Often followed by

transformation transformations connection space geometry and plane invariant transform

Word family

affinely affines

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