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{{Wiktionary|affinity}}

'''Affinity''' may refer to:

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== Commerce, finance and law ==
* [[Affinity (law)]], kinship by marriage
* [[Affinity analysis]], a market research and business management technique 
* [[Affinity Credit Union]], a Saskatchewan-based credit union
* [[Affinity Equity Partners]], an Asian private equity firm
* [[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 Partners]], an American private equity firm

== Religion and belief ==
* [[Affinity (canon law)]], a kinship arising from the sexual intercourse of a man and a woman
* [[Affinity (Christian organisation)]], network of conservative evangelical churches and Christian agencies
* [[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]], method of separating a biomolecule from a mixture
* [[Affinity electrophoresis]], general name for many analytical methods used in biochemistry and biotechnology
* [[Affinity laws]], laws used in hydraulics to express relationships between variables involved in fan or pump performance
* [[Binding affinity]], a measure of the interaction of ligands with their binding sites
* [[Chemical affinity]], used to describe or characterise elements' or compounds' readiness to form bonds
* [[Electron affinity]], energy released on formation of anions
* [[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 Designer]], a vector illustration editor
** [[Affinity Photo]], a raster graphics editor
** [[Affinity Publisher]], a desktop publishing application

== Media-related ==

===Music===
* [[Affinity (band)]], a jazz/rock band
** [[Affinity (Affinity album)|''Affinity'' (Affinity album)]]
* [[Affinity (Bill Evans album)|''Affinity'' (Bill Evans album)]]
* [[Affinity (Haken album)|''Affinity'' (Haken album)]]
* [[Affinity (Oscar Peterson album)|''Affinity'' (Oscar Peterson album)]]
* [[Affinity (EP)|''Affinity'' (EP)]], a 2013 EP by the English band Press to Meco
* [[Johnny Alegre Affinity|Johnny Alegre A]], a jazz collective based in Manila

===Other media===
* [[Affinity (novel)|''Affinity'' (novel)]], a 1999 novel by Sarah Waters
** [[Affinity (film)|''Affinity'' (film)]], a 2008 feature film based on the novel
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* [[Affinity (Stargate SG-1)|"Affinity" (''Stargate SG-1'')]], an episode from season 8 of the TV sci-fi spin-off series ''Stargate SG-1''

==Other uses==
* [[Affinity (medieval)]], late medieval retainers of a monarch in "bastard feudalism"
* [[Affinity, West Virginia]]

== See also ==
* [[Affine (disambiguation)]]
** [[Affine transformation]], a type of transformation applied to a geometry
** [[Refining]], also known as "affining"
* [[Afinidad (disambiguation)]]

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