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