affin

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See also: Äffin and -affin

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

affin (feminine affine, masculine plural affins, feminine plural affines)

  1. affine (all senses)

Further reading

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin affīnis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

affin (strong nominative masculine singular affiner, comparative affiner, superlative am affinsten)

  1. affine
    technikaffin(please add an English translation of this usage example)

Declension

Further reading

  • affin” in Duden online

Hungarian

Etymology

From German affin, from Latin affinis.[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

affin (comparative affinabb, superlative legaffinabb)

  1. (mathematics) affine
  2. (geometry) affine
  3. (chemistry) affine (of two materials, having mutual affinity, able to form bonds)
    Synonym: vegyrokon

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative affin affinok
accusative affint affinokat
dative affinnak affinoknak
instrumental affinnal affinokkal
causal-final affinért affinokért
translative affinná affinokká
terminative affinig affinokig
essive-formal affinként affinokként
essive-modal
inessive affinban affinokban
superessive affinon affinokon
adessive affinnál affinoknál
illative affinba affinokba
sublative affinra affinokra
allative affinhoz affinokhoz
elative affinból affinokból
delative affinról affinokról
ablative affintól affinoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
affiné affinoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
affinéi affinokéi

Derived terms

Expressions

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Scots

Alternative forms

Etymology

aff- +‎ in

Pronunciation

Preposition

affin

  1. off

References

Swedish

Adjective

affin

  1. (mathematics) affine; describing a function expressible as f(x)=ax+b (which is not linear, but is similar)
  2. (mathematics) affine; of or pertaining to a transformation that maps parallel lines to parallel lines and finite points to finite points.

Declension

Inflection of affin
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular affin
Neuter singular affint
Plural affina
Masculine plural3 affine
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 affine
All affina
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic