English-Spanish translations for affinity

• afinidad
  La sensación de afinidad recíproca tiene que crecer. The feeling of reciprocal affinity has to grow.
  380 millones de ciudadanos de la Unión tienen afinidad con la Comisión. 380 million citizens of the Union have an affinity with the Commission.
  La democracia también depende de una conexión entre gobernantes y gobernados, es decir, de la afinidad que exista entre ellos. Democracy depends also on a connection between government and governed - an affinity.

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