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Meaning of "affine" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AFFINE

Via French from Latin affīnis bordering on, related.
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PRONUNCIATION OF AFFINE

affine  [ˈæfaɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AFFINE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Affine is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES AFFINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Affine

Affine may refer to: ▪ Affine cipher, a special case of the more general substitution cipher ▪ Affine combination, a certain kind of constrained linear combination ▪ Affine connection, a connection on the tangent bundle of a differentiable manifold ▪ Affine differential geometry, a geometry that studies differential invariants under the action of the special affine group ▪ Affine geometry, a geometry characterized by parallel lines ▪ Affine group, the group of all invertible affine transformations from any affine space over a field K into itself ▪ Affine representation, a continuous group homomorphism whose values are automorphisms of an affine space ▪ Affine scheme, the spectrum of prime ideals of a commutative ring ▪ Affine space, an abstract structure that generalises the affine-geometric properties of Euclidean space ▪ Affine transformation, a transformation that preserves the relation of parallelism between lines...

Definition of affine in the English dictionary

The definition of affine in the dictionary is of, characterizing, or involving transformations which preserve collinearity, esp in classical geometry, those of translation, rotation and reflection in an axis.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AFFINE


confine
kənˈfaɪn
define
dɪˈfaɪn
didelphine
daɪˈdɛlfaɪn
elaphine
ˈɛləfaɪn
fine
faɪn
giraffine
dʒɪˈræfaɪn
misdefine
ˌmɪsdɪˈfaɪn
overfine
ˌəʊvəˈfaɪn
overrefine
ˌəʊvərɪˈfaɪn
predefine
ˌpriːdɪˈfaɪn
reconfine
ˌriːkənˈfaɪn
redefine
ˌriːdɪˈfaɪn
refine
rɪˈfaɪn
superfine
ˌsuːpəˈfaɪn
superrefine
ˌsuːpərrɪˈfaɪn
sylphine
ˈsɪlfaɪn
tragelaphine
trəˈɡɛləˌfaɪn
ultrafine
ˈʌltrəˌfaɪn
unconfine
ˌʌnkənˈfaɪn
unfine
ʌnˈfaɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AFFINE

affiche
afficionado
affidavit
affiliable
affiliate
affiliated
affiliation
affiliation order
affiliation proceedings
affinal
affined
affinities
affinitive
affinity
affinity card
affirm
affirmable
affirmance
affirmant
affirmation

WORDS THAT END LIKE AFFINE

cuisine
cut it fine
determine
divine
eine
engine
genuine
hotline
imagine
in fine
ja well no fine
line
machine
magazine
olefine
on-the-spot fine
paraffine
parking fine
speeding fine
spot fine

Synonyms and antonyms of affine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «affine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AFFINE

Find out the translation of affine to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of affine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «affine» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

仿射
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

afín
570 millions of speakers

English

affine
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

affine
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أفيني
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

аффинное
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

afim
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অ্যাফিন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

affine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Afine
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

affine
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

アフィン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

아핀
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Affine
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

affine
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கேண்முறைத்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Affine
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

afin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

affine
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

afiniczna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

аффинное
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

afin
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

affine
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

affine
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

affin
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

affine
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of affine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AFFINE»

The term «affine» is quite widely used and occupies the 42.033 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AFFINE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «affine» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «affine» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about affine

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AFFINE»

Discover the use of affine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to affine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Affine Differential Geometry: Geometry of Affine Immersions
This is a self-contained and systematic account of affine differential geometry from a contemporary viewpoint, not only covering the classical theory, but also introducing the modern developments that have happened over the last decade.
Katsumi Nomizu, Takeshi Sasaki, 1994
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Introduction to Affine Group Schemes
The ring-theoretic work on faithful flatness in Part IV turns out to give the true explanation for the behavior of quotient group functors.
W.C. Waterhouse, 1979
3
Affine Lie Algebras and Quantum Groups: An Introduction, ...
This is an introduction to the theory of affine Lie algebras and to the theory of quantum groups.
Jürgen Fuchs, 1995
4
Affine and Projective Geometry
An important new perspective on AFFINE AND PROJECTIVE GEOMETRY This innovative book treats math majors and math education students to a fresh look at affine and projective geometry from algebraic, synthetic, and lattice theoretic points of ...
M. K. Bennett, 2011
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Affine Maps, Euclidean Motions and Quadrics
All factors combined, this is a self-contained book ideal for self-study that is not only foundational but unique in its approach.’This text will be of use to lecturers in linear algebra and its applications to geometry as well as ...
Agustí Reventós Tarrida, 2011
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Affine Hecke Algebras and Orthogonal Polynomials
First account of a theory, created by Macdonald, of a class of orthogonal polynomial, which is related to mathematical physics.
I. G. Macdonald, 2003
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Lie Algebras of Finite and Affine Type
This book provides a thorough but relaxed mathematical treatment of Lie algebras.
Roger William Carter, 2005
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Global Affine Differential Geometry of Hypersurfaces
Global Affine Differential Geometry of Hypersurfaces (De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics)
An-Min Li, Udo Simon, Guosong Zhao, 1993
9
Affine Lie Algebras, Weight Multiplicities, and Branching Rules
This is mathematics the way it should be written, with lots of examples. . . . This book is unique at this time. . . . The authors have performed a service to the math/physics community."--Pierre Ramond, University of Florida
10
Double Affine Hecke Algebras
This is an essentially self-contained monograph in an intriguing field of fundamental importance for Representation Theory, Harmonic Analysis, Mathematical Physics, and Combinatorics.
Ivan Cherednik, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AFFINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term affine is used in the context of the following news items.
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Next weekend: Eats on the Street and Art from the Fort
Van Wert— Four wheels and a driver's seat, but these are not average box trucks. In fact, Dan Campbell, owner of Affine Food Truck and ... «Times Bulletin, Jul 15»
2
BRIEF-Affine and Kaufman & Broad partner to support the …
Affine and Kaufman & Broad will each hold 17 pct of capital of Urbismart. Source text: bit.ly/1IRVXsT Further company coverage: (Gdynia ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
3
Portal view
There is an affine transformation that maps one reference frame to the other one. You need to transform the camera through that transformation ... «GameDev.net, Jul 15»
4
I. Comment mieux se connecter au client ?
Pour la personnalisation, c'est plus de la donnée CRM qui affine la sélection. Et plus la sélection est fine, plus le taux de transformation est ... «TourMaG.com, Jun 15»
5
Risk Premia And Volatilities In A Nonlinear Term Structure Model
To compare the implications of the nonlinear model with those from the standard class of affine models, we also estimate a three-factor affine ... «ValueWalk, Jun 15»
6
Difficulty displaying animations from FBX
Either way, here is the snippet that sets the animation. I believe the problem comes from how I'm trying to apply the affine matrix to each vertex. «GameDev.net, Jun 15»
7
The Five Requirements for Application Services in a Software …
... super focused on applications. Especially those services that are particularly application affine. You know the ones - caching, load balancing, ... «SYS-CON Media, Jun 15»
8
Fort Wayne to host a party on the Wells Bridge to get people downtown
Two food trucks, Cochonnet Cart (Affine) and Whip n' Chill, will be there selling food and cold desserts. This event is part of Riverfront Fort ... «21Alive, Jun 15»
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Riverfront party set for Friday
... which will be presented by Needless to Say, a jazz combo made up of musicians from Soft N' Heavy and the B45s. Cochonnet Cart (Affine) ... «News Sentinel, Jun 15»
10
Four Indian women scientists who are pushing the frontiers of research
At the Indian Statistical Institute, she continues to delve into research questions in commutative algebra and affine algebraic geometry - the ... «Scroll.in, Jun 15»

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