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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (anthropology) kin by marriage;


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. (mathematics) of or pertaining to the geometry of affine transformations;

2. (anthropology) related by marriage;
[syn: affinal, affine]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Affine \Af*fine"\, v. t. [F. affiner to refine; ? (L. ad) + fin
   fine. See Fine.]
   To refine. [Obs.] --Holland.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

affine
    adj 1: (mathematics) of or pertaining to the geometry of affine
           transformations
    2: (anthropology) related by marriage [syn: affinal, affine]
    n 1: (anthropology) kin by marriage