affiliation
— Noun
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～ a social or business relationship; "a valuable financial affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team"; "many close associations with England"
affine
— Noun
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～ (anthropology) kin by marriage
affinity
— Noun
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～ (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody
affinity
— Noun
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～ (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship
affinity
— Noun
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～ the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule; "basic dyes have an affinity for wool and silk"
affinity
— Noun
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～ a natural attraction or feeling of kinship; "an affinity for politics"; "the mysterious affinity between them"; "James's affinity with Sam"
affinity
— Noun
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～ a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character; "found a natural affinity with the immigrants"; "felt a deep kinship with the other students"; "anthropology's kinship with the humanities"
affinity
— Noun
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～ inherent resemblance between persons or things
affinity
— Noun
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～ (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts; "in anatomical structure prehistoric man shows close affinity with modern humans"
affirmation
— Noun
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～ the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
affirmation
— Noun
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～ a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was correct and should stand
affirmation
— Noun
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～ (religion) a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if an oath is objectionable to the person on religious or ethical grounds)
affirmation
— Noun
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～ a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something
affirmative action
— Noun
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～ a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities; "affirmative action has been extremely controversial and was challenged in 1978 in the Bakke decision"
affirmative
— Noun
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～ a reply of affirmation; "he answered in the affirmative"
affirmativeness
— Noun
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～ the agreeable quality of one who assents
affirmed
— Noun
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～ thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1978
affirmer
— Noun
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～ someone who claims to speak the truth; "a bold asserter"; "a declarer of his intentions"; "affirmers of traditional doctrine"; "an asseverator of strong convictions"; "an avower of his own great intelligence"
affix
— Noun
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～ a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form
affixation
— Noun
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～ the act of attaching or affixing something