| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | af·fine |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -f n |
| ADJECTIVE: | Mathematics 1. Of or relating to a transformation of coordinates that is equivalent to a linear transformation followed by a translation. 2. Of or relating to the geometry of affine transformations. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French affin, closely related, from Old French. See affined.
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