affinal, affine
(adjective) (anthropology) related by marriage
affine
(adjective) (mathematics) of or pertaining to the geometry of affine transformations
affine
(noun) (anthropology) kin by marriage
Source: WordNet® 3.1
affine (comparative more affine, superlative most affine)
(mathematics) Assigning finite values to finite quantities.
(geometry) Of or pertaining to a function expressible as (where is a linear transformation and is a constant), which, regarded as a transformation, maps parallel lines to parallel lines and finite points to finite points.
(comparable, chemistry) Of two materials, having mutual affinity.
affine (plural affines)
(anthropology, genealogy) A relative by marriage, an in-law.
• (relative by marriage): in-law
affine (third-person singular simple present affines, present participle affining, simple past and past participle affined)
To refine.
Source: Wiktionary
Af*fine", v. t. Etym: [F. affiner to refine; (L. ad) + fin fine. See Fine.]
Definition: To refine. [Obs.] Holland.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 May 2025
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
