affin

See also: Äffin and -affin

French

Adjective

affin (feminine singular affine, masculine plural affins, feminine plural affines)

  1. affine (all senses)


German

Etymology

From Latin affinis

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [aˈfiːn]
  • Hyphenation: af‧fin
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Adjective

affin (comparative affiner, superlative am affinsten)

  1. affine

Declension

Further reading


Swedish

Adjective

affin

  1. (mathematics) affine; describing a function expressible as f(x)=ax+b (which is not linear, but is similar)
  2. (mathematics) affine; of or pertaining to a transformation that maps parallel lines to parallel lines and finite points to finite points.

Declension

Inflection of affin
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular affin
Neuter singular affint
Plural affina
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 affine
All affina
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
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