English-Portuguese translations for affinity

• afinidade
  O sentimento de afinidade mútua tem de crescer. The feeling of reciprocal affinity has to grow.
  380 milhões de cidadãos da União têm uma afinidade com a Comissão. 380 million citizens of the Union have an affinity with the Commission.
  A democracia depende também de uma ligação, uma afinidade, entre o governo e aqueles que são governados. Democracy depends also on a connection between government and governed - an affinity.
• afim

Definition of affinity

• A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing
• A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal
• Any romantic relationship
• resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock
• An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds
• tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses

Related words

• affinity card
• affinity marketing
• electron affinity
• elective affinity
• spectral affinity