affine
/əˈfaɪn/
adjective
- Related by marriage, not by blood.
- Her affine relatives include her husband's cousins.
- The wedding brought together both blood and affine family members.
- In some cultures, affine relationships are as important as blood ties.
- In mathematics, describing a type of geometry or transformation that preserves points, straight lines, and parallelism.
- An affine map can stretch or shrink a shape but keeps lines straight.
- The students studied affine transformations in their geometry class.
- Affine geometry is a branch of mathematics that deals with parallel lines.
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