Affinity vs. Avidity

Affinitynoun

A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.

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A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).

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A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.

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The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.

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Any romantic relationship.

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Any passionate love for something.

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(taxonomy) resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.

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(geology) structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.

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(chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds

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(medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen

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(computing) tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses

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(geometry) An automorphism of affine space.

Affinitynoun

Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); - in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; - followed by with, to, or between.

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Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages.

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Companionship; acquaintance.

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That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective affinity or attraction.

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A relation between species or higher groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin.

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A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.

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the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule;

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(immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody

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kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship

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(biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts;

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a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character;

Affinitynoun

inherent resemblance between persons or things

Affinitynoun

a natural attraction or feeling of kinship;

Aviditynoun

Greediness; strong appetite.

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Eagerness; intenseness of desire.

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(biochemistry) The measure of the synergism of the strength of individual interactions between proteins.

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Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity.

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a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something

Avidity

In biochemistry, avidity refers to the accumulated strength of multiple affinities of individual non-covalent binding interactions, such as between a protein receptor and its ligand, and is commonly referred to as functional affinity. As such, avidity is distinct from affinity, which describes the strength of a single interaction.