Affiliative drive
the urge to form friendships and attachments, typically prompting a person to attend social gatherings and join organizations as a way of preventing loneliness and gaining emotional security.
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- Affinal
related by or concerning marriage.
- Affine
a person related to one by marriage. -ssigning finite values to finite quant-ties. of or relating to a transformation that maps parallel lines to parallel lines and finite points to finite points. adjective (maths) of, characterizing, or involving transformations which preserve collinearity, esp in cl-ssical geometry, those of translation, rotation and reflection in an axis
- Affine geometry
the branch of geometry dealing with affine transformations.
- Affine group
the group of all affine transformations of a finite-dimensional vector sp-ce.
- Affine transformation
affine transformation mathematics a linear transformation followed by a translation. given a matrix m and a vector v, a(x) = mx + v is a typical affine transformation. (1995-04-10)